Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Packhorse Bridge
The Vale of Grwyney, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 19 November 1998
- Locality
- Llangenny
- Community
- The Vale of Grwyney
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.86401, -3.10799
- Cadw reference
- 20894
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Bridge over the Grwyne Fawr approximately 0.8km NNW of Llangenny church, and reached by public footpath E of minor road between Llangenny and Llanbedr and W of Ty Draw.
History
C18 or early C19, and shown on Tithe map of 1839.
Exterior
Single-span hump-backed bridge of rubble sandstone. A segmental arch has thin voussoirs and springs from abutments which are splayed outwards. A plain low parapet has a modern cement coping.
Reason for designation
Surviving packhorse bridge and one of a series of stone bridges crossing the Grwyne rivers.
Nearby in the register
- Ty LlangennyDomesticunder 1 mi
- Byre and Cart Shed at Ty LlangennyAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Ty CanolDomesticunder 1 mi
- Byre at PenygilfachAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.