Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont-Rhydbont, or Four-Mile Bridge
Rhoscolyn, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 3 June 1998
- Locality
- Four Mile Bridge
- Community
- Rhoscolyn
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.27415, -4.58114
- Cadw reference
- 19948
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located c1.5km SW of Valley along the B4545, spanning the strait between Anglesey and Holy Island.
History
Probably late C18, built after the reclamation of Cleifiog sands in 1776, and forming part of one of the mail roads to Holyhead before the construction of the Stanley Embankment in 1822.
Exterior
Long embankment of rubble masonry with battered sides and a simple semi-circular arched culvert in centre, widened on east side. Roughly coped rubble parapet walls flanking road carriage.
Reason for designation
Included as an example of a substantially intact C18 embankment, of historic importance as forming part of the mail road to Holyhead.
Nearby in the register
- Pont-Rhydbont, or Four-Mile BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Ty'r AlltDomesticunder 1 mi
- Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ynys Leurad Hut CirclesHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.