Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Water lift pump at Rhyd-yr-onen
Bryn-Crug, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bryn Crug, Gwynedd, designated on 15 August 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 15 August 2000
- Locality
- Bryn Crug
- Community
- Bryn-Crug
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.59963, -4.04481
- Cadw reference
- 23907
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 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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 149 Barmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The pump stands beside the K6 telephone kiosk and post box in the hamlet of Rhyd-yr-onen, opposte Y Barclud, one of a row of 5 small cottages.
History
Probably erected later in the C19 when piped water was first introuduced to the village.
Exterior
Cast iron lift pump, with a 10.16cm (4") diameter pipe with strengthening bands ascending to a widened and fluted top chamber, to which is attached a double curved arm and handle. The discharge pipe, at the head of the ascending pipe, has a scroll-shaped bucket hook. On the side of the chamber, a registration number and the manufacturer's badge on the shaft, surmounted by a lion crest, possibly for Norton Hamar, or the Lion Foundry of Kirkentilloch, Scotland, the manufacturer of the adjoining kiosk. The pump is steadied by two stay bars and a collar, and has been recently painted.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved village pump, one of a group of such pumps in the community, an interesting example of a public amenity, unusual in a rural area.
Nearby in the register
- Castell Cynfal, Bryn CrugMotteunder 1 mi
- Water lift pump at Pen ParcWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- BronwylfaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Water lift pump on road to PenowernWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.