Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Penlan-fach bridge
Tonna, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Wenallt, Tonna, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 25 February 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 25 February 2000
- Locality
- Wenallt
- Community
- Tonna
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67513, -3.76555
- Cadw reference
- 22859
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On an unclassified road to Wenallt Farm approximately 1km ESE of Tonna church spanning a stream and the former Glyncorrwg Mineral Railway.
History
A bridge built 1839-42 over an inclined section of the Glyncorrwg Mineral Railway, engineered by William Kirkhouse, who may therefore also have built the overbridge.
Exterior
A single-carriageway coursed rubble-stone bridge with a single round arch with dressed arch ring. The imposts have fragments of former pilasters on the N side. The abutments are stepped, and are flanked by later abutments discernible by straight joints. There is no parapet.
Reason for designation
Listed for its industrial archaeological interest as a well-detailed early bridge associated with the Glyncorrwg Mineral Railway.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St AnneReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 12 Dulais Fach RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dulais FachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dulais Isaf HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.