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Betws Gwerfil Goch, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bettws Gwerfil Goch, Betws Gwerfil Goch, Denbighshire, designated on 7 August 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 7 August 2000
- Locality
- Bettws Gwerfil Goch
- Community
- Betws Gwerfil Goch
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.00770, -3.44272
- Cadw reference
- 23871
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 120 Corwen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At south east of the village of Bettws Gwerfil Goch, over a minor tributary of the Afon Alwen.
History
Probably C18, but undateable. The bridge appears to take its present name from a small nearby Independent chapel dated 1850.
Exterior
A small vernacular village bridge, in uncoursed local rubble masonry. The stream passes through four rough-stonework openings each less than a metre in width and capped with large stone slabs. The road is about 4 m wide between the parapets. The parapets are of segmental profile, rising to less than a metre high at the mid span; coping of upright stones.
Reason for designation
A well preserved minor vernacular village bridge of increasingly rare type.
Nearby in the register
- GwynfaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lychgate of St Mary's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Old house and outbuildings at north side of Wyn LlanAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.