Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bridge over Tennant Canal W of former Crown Copperworks
Coedffranc, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tennant Canal, Coedffranc, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 29 March 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 March 2000
- Locality
- Tennant Canal
- Community
- Coedffranc
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.65416, -3.83754
- Cadw reference
- 23069
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)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 247 Swansea (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Crossing the Tennant Canal S of the A465 and reached by minor road from Neath Abbey Industrial Estate. The bridge stands at the entrance to Gillard's vehicle spares.
History
The Tennant Canal was built 1820-4, engineered by William Kirkhouse. The head of the canal was at Aberdulais, where it joins the Neath Canal, and ended at Port Tennant on the E side of the River Tawe in Swansea. Traffic was carried on the canal until the 1930s. The bridge is probably an original feature of the canal and is shown on the 1844 Tithe map adjacent to the Crown Copperworks. Its flat deck suggests that it was built to carry a tramroad.
Exterior
A wide single-carriageway, single-span bridge of snecked stone. A segmental arch has tooled voussoirs. A low parapet retains some original copper slag copings but is otherwise replaced.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with other listed items associated with the Tennant Canal.
Nearby in the register
- Neath River swing bridge (partly in Neath and Briton Ferry Communities)Transportunder 1 mi
- Neath River Swing Bridge (partly in Coedffranc and Neath Communities)Transportunder 1 mi
- Bridge over S end of Skewen Cutting, Tennant Canal (partly in Dyffryn Clydach community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Bridge over S end of Skewen Cutting, Tennant Canal (partly in Coedffranc community)Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.