Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bottom Lock and Bridge, Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal
Allt-yr-Yn, Newport, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Allt-yr-yn, Newport, designated on 14 September 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 14 September 1999
- Locality
- Allt-yr-yn
- Community
- Allt-yr-Yn
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.59760, -3.01165
- Cadw reference
- 22330
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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)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1906 · 249 Newport (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Isolated location. Situated approximately 200 metres NE of Waen Lock. M4 motorway runs immediately NW.
History
The eastern branch of the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1792, and officially opened in 1799. It ran from Newport to Pontnewynydd, and was engineered by Thomas Dadford Jnr. The canal connected with several tramroads belonging to the same company (Monmouthshire Canal Navigational Company), carrying coal down to the wharves. The branch was 17.7 km long, and rose 136.2 metres through 42 locks. The contemporary western branch, 19 km long, ran to Crumlin. In 1812, the eastern branch was connected to the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal at Pontymoile Basin, and this became the main line. In 1853-55, the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company built a railway down to Newport, the company amalgamating with the Great Western Railway in 1880. The canal then became increasingly disused. The Crumlin branch closed in 1949, the main line in 1962.
Exterior
Lock chamber of rubble construction with tooled sandstone copings and quoins. Rebate for removed lock gate to NE with small bridge beyond. Semental arch, stone voussoirs. Straight SW parapet; humped to NE; cemented copings. Iron plate to NE side: ‘Gwasted No. 2 Bridge’. Bridge carries track to field gate. Deep stone-lined overflow ditch on SE side. Rubble weir at SW end, with splayed retaining walls beyond.
Reason for designation
Listed as a significant element of the engineering works associated with the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal.
Nearby in the register
- Waen Lock, Monmouthshire and Brecon CanalTransportunder 1 mi
- Dock Lock, Monmouthshire and Brecon CanalTransportunder 1 mi
- Boundary Wall to Raglan BarracksDefenceunder 1 mi
- Range to SW of Main Barrack Block (including Cadet Training Centre), Raglan BarracksDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.