Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Sealyham Bridge
Wolfscastle, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 7 August 2002
- Locality
- St Dogwells
- Town
- Haverfordwest
- Community
- Wolfscastle
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.91329, -4.95643
- Cadw reference
- 26839
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
Situated some 200m E of Sealyham and some 150m W of the Church of Saint Dogfael.
History
Road bridge over Afon Anghof dated 1800, similar in style to Wolfscastle Bridge dated 1793. The river is called the Sealy by Fenton in 1811.
Exterior
Road bridge, rubble stone, broad single arch with cut stone voussoirs, keystone dated 1800. Slightly humped curving roadway and rubble stone parapets with edge-on stone copings. Buttress against SE abutment. Parapets curve to NE.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-build road bridge of 1800.
Nearby in the register
- Inscribed Stone in ChurchyardInscribed Stoneunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint DogfaelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- SealyhamDomesticunder 1 mi
- Sealyham Rocks CampRathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.