Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rubble Footbridge uphill from Hermitage
Llandwrog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 8 September 1998
- Locality
- Glynllifon
- Community
- Llandwrog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.07475, -4.29646
- Cadw reference
- 20501
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated approximately 50m east of, and uphill from, the Hermitage.
History
Possibly part of the 2nd Lord Newborough's many improvements to the pleasure grounds in the 1820's given that one of these bridges carries a path up to the Hermitage which was built c1825. The rubble bridges in the valley tend to be earlier than the iron ones.
Glynllifon was the seat of the Wynn family and Sir Thomas John Wynn became the 1st Lord Newborough in 1776. The house was rebuilt after a fire 1836-48 by Edward Haycock, architect of Shrewsbury.
Exterior
Simple single-arched rustic rubble footbridge with flat deck carrying a path over a small waterfall, one of the many water features within the Llifon Valley.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with neighbouring listed items within these well-preserved C19 pleasure grounds.
Nearby in the register
- Rubble Footbridge below the HermitageGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- HermitageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pair of Stone Bridges beside Iron Bridge and below HermitageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Iron Footbridge over Afon LlifonGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.