Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ford Bridge
Wolfscastle, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 7 August 2002
- Locality
- Wolfscastle
- Town
- Haverfordwest
- Community
- Wolfscastle
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.89889, -4.97097
- Cadw reference
- 26845
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
In the valley of the Western Cleddau near the centre of Wolfscastle just W of the A40.
History
Road bridge over the Western Cleddau, dated 1793.
Exterior
Road bridge, rubble stone with three arches, cut-stone voussoirs, recessed with thin arch ring. Keystone of S arch, E side is dated 1793. Triangular cutwater each side with cut stone cap and sloping rubble top. Parapets have end-on stone copings. In centre of E parapet plaque marked 'Boundary of St Dogwells and Hayscastle parish'. Parapet curves out at NW end.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-built late C18 two-arched road bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Wolfscastle Castle MoundMotte and Baileyunder 1 mi
- GlenviewDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ford CampEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing Stone 450m SSE of Lower Broadmoor FarmStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.