Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Welsh Hook Bridge (partly in Wolfscastle community)
Hayscastle, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in St Lawrence, Haverfordwest, Hayscastle, Pembrokeshire, designated on 27 July 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 27 July 2001
- Locality
- St Lawrence
- Town
- Haverfordwest
- Community
- Hayscastle
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.90943, -5.00530
- Cadw reference
- 25612
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 210 Cardigan (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 210 Cardigan (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 200m N of the church at St Lawrence.
History
Road bridge over the Western Cleddau, later C18, with datestone of 1774.
Exterior
Road bridge, rubble stone, three arches with cut stone voussoirs to recessed arch rings and raised keystones. Centre arch is larger. Two cutwaters each side Rubble stone parapets with edge-on stone coping, long abutment on E side. S parapet has datestone JM 1774.
Reason for designation
Included as three-arched road bridge of traditional character with cutwaters and narrow roadway, but with well-formed arches.
Nearby in the register
- Welsh Hook Bridge (partly in Hayscastle community)Transportunder 1 mi
- St Lawrence CampPromontory Fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint LawrenceReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Saint Lawrence HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.