Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bont Newydd
Llanengan, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 1 April 1998
- Locality
- Llangian
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Llanengan
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.82552, -4.53257
- Cadw reference
- 19613
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on boundary between Llangian and Llanengan, over Afon Soch, some 600m S of Llangian.
History
Early C19 road bridge over the Afon Soch with causeway approach each side. When Edward Hyde Hall visited the area 1809-11 it appears that the only bridge over the Soch was in the village. Marked on 1839 Tithe Map.
Exterior
Rubble stone long straight causeway with flat rubble parapets coped in roughly squared blocks. Two arches with recessed stone voussoirs, one semicircular, the other slightly pointed and one low opening with slab lintel.
Reason for designation
A prominent causeway bridge with two arches.
Nearby in the register
- Ty'n-y-caeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty'n LlanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box (tel no: 01758 712206)Communicationsunder 1 mi
- Siop LlangianCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.