Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Gorswen
Caerhun, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 13 October 1966
- Locality
- Pont Gorswen
- Community
- Caerhun
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22444, -3.85571
- Cadw reference
- 3169
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Spanning the Afon Roe and carrying an unclassified lane leading NW from Pontwgan to Roewen.
Exterior
3-span clapper bridge, probably C17 or C18. Boulder-built with natural lintel slabs resting on dry-built piers; parapet to W with on-end boulder capping. The bridge has been widened in recent years.
Reason for designation
An early vernacular clapper bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Pont y DdolTransportunder 1 mi
- Bwthyn RhydReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- FronfaDomesticunder 1 mi
- BodafonDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.