Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walls flanking the inclined plane joining the Bettws tramway to the DLP Railway.
Llangynwyd Lower, Bridgend, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Goetre-hen, Llangynwyd Lower, Bridgend, designated on 23 October 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 23 October 1998
- Locality
- Goetre-hen
- Town
- Llangynwyd Lower
- Community
- Llangynwyd Lower
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.56192, -3.60086
- Cadw reference
- 20744
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1884 · Glamorgan Sheet XXXIV (National Library of Scotland)
- 1907 · 248 Pontypridd (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The inclined plane rises from near road level at a steep angle to join the former Duffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Railway on the W side of the valley, half-way between Nicholls Road and the Shwt turning off the A4063.
History
Built c.1825-6 to provide direct access from the tramway from Sir Robert Price's coal workings at Bettws to the approximately contemporary Duyffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Railway running along the higher contours on the W side of the valley. The lower end of the plane was damaged when the A4063 was widened.
Exterior
An angled walled track preserved in woodland, and defined by side walls of rubble stonework set 3.04m apart, of height averaging 1.6m although reaching 3.3m in places where retaining the hill slope. The total rise is approximately 15m.
Reason for designation
Included as an important and well preserved monument of early railway development, and evocative of the early history of the industrial exploitation of the Llynfi valley.
Nearby in the register
- Nicholls Arms PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- Pont-y-rhyd-ddu (partly in Garw Valley community)Communicationsunder 1 mi
- Cildeudy tunnelIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Abutments to overbridge/ loading bay on the former Duffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl RailwayIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.