Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Footbridge at former Tredegar Park Golf Course
Graig, Newport, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bassaleg, Newport, Graig, designated on 24 September 1985.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 24 September 1985
- Locality
- Bassaleg
- Town
- Newport
- Community
- Graig
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.57403, -3.03409
- Cadw reference
- 3075
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)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1906 · 249 Newport (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Spanning the Ebbw River close to the M4 on the E side of the former Tredegar Park Golf Course.
History
Probably dating from 1805 when the Park Mile Tramroad opened, iron superstructure of 1870 by C Jordan, engineers of Newport. The bridge and causeway were formerly part of a tramroad system linking Sirhowy and Tredegar with Newport Docks.
Exterior
Triple-span bridge with rubble abutments and piers, some dressed masonry to V-shaped cutwaters and cappings (projecting supports indicates original bridge width). Later ironwork deck of flanged girders with slotted-in plates and bolted handrails. Balusters with ball-finals, plain rods, commemorative plaques with shaped heads, royal arms and Tredegar arms. Inscriptions on plaques read ' C Jordan Engineer, Iron and Brass Founder, Newport, Mon, 1870.' and ' Mr R Paine, Surveyor to the Right Hon. The Lord Tredegar 1970 '. Modern pipe fixed to W side.
Reason for designation
Included as a rare survival of an early tramroad bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Nos 28, 29 and 30 Forge Lane CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tredegar FortHillfortunder 1 mi
- Pye Corner (Bassaleg) Golden Mile PillarNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Lychgate, churchyard walls and railings to Church of Saint BasilNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.