Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gellifelen Tramroad Bridge
Llanelly, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 27 July 2000
- Locality
- Gellifelen
- Community
- Llanelly
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.80109, -3.13335
- Cadw reference
- 23824
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
Bridges carries public road between Darrenfelen and Gellifelen over very sharp bend above steep river ravine. Approximately 1 km S of Darrenfelen.
History
Built 1821, as part of Joseph and Crawshay Bailey’s horse-powered tramroad between the Nantyglo Ironworks and the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal. The engineer was Thomas Hill of Blaenavon. The Nantyglo Ironworks Company applied to the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal Company to construct the line in 1820, but a delay was experienced because the proposed route crossed the Llam-march tramroad, belonging to the Clydach Ironworks. By April 1821, the Baileys were allowed to build the tramroad using their own capital and labour, and on 6th December 1821, the line opened, the Hereford Journal reporting that a line of trams were sent to Abergavenny laden with coal for the poor of the town.
Exterior
Rubble construction. Single semi-circular arch with stone voussoirs. Head of north arch has iron tie-bar. Low parapets with cemented copings.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved early C19 tramroad bridge, a prominent surviving structure of important industrial landscape of the Clydach Gorge.
Nearby in the register
- Revetment of former Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway at DarrenfelenTransportunder 1 mi
- Limekilns at Llanelly LimeworksIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Devil’s BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Limekilns at Blackrock Limeworks, including Loading-rampIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.