Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Cyrnant (partly in Waunfawr Community)
Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pont Cyrnant, Caernarfon, Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, designated on 29 January 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1999
- Locality
- Pont Cyrnant
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Betws Garmon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.10799, -4.20309
- Cadw reference
- 21280
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 1896 map "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located on the A 4085 at the southern end of Waunfawr where it crosses the Afon Gwyrfai, which here forms the Community boundary between Betws Garmon and Waunfawr.
History
Built as part of the establishment of the turnpike road in the 1820s.
Exterior
Bridge. Roughly coursed rubblestone with tooled ashlar coping. Double-span segmental arch on stone platform divided by massive cutwater on eastern side, both arches with voussoirs and arch-rings. 2 floodwater arches on the Betws Garmon side, the northern similar but smaller than the main arches, the southern very flat and low.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as a turnpike road bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Pont Cyrnant (partly in Betws Garmon community)Transportunder 1 mi
- MilestoneTransportunder 1 mi
- Cae GlasAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.