Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Railway Signal Post at Tintern Station
Wye Valley, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tintern Parva, Chepstow, Wye Valley, Monmouthshire, designated on 29 September 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 September 2000
- Locality
- Tintern Parva
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Wye Valley
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70329, -2.67024
- Cadw reference
- 24044
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. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 250 Chepstow (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On a meadow at a loop of the river Wye to N of Tintern Abbey.
History
A GWR signal dating probably from 1908 when the Wye Valley Railway was taken over by the Great Western Railway. It is marked on the O.S. 25" map, 1921 edition.
Exterior
The signal is constructed in cast and wrought iron. A cylindrical cast iron post carries a wrought iron gantry with two signals, a 'distant' and a 'home', both with onion finials.
Reason for designation
Included as an extremely rare surviving in-situ railway semaphore signal, and for its group value with the other buildings at Tintern station.
Nearby in the register
- Water Tank at Tintern StationWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Tintern StationTransportunder 1 mi
- Signal Box at Tintern StationTransportunder 1 mi
- Name Board at Tintern StationTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.