Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Pensarn
Pwllheli, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 28 July 1989
- Community
- Pwllheli
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.88985, -4.43762
- Cadw reference
- 4598
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 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the western edge of the Community Council area. Spanning the narrow Afon Ddwyryd on the old road from Pwllheli to Nefyn.
History
Said to have been built in 1775;
Exterior
Causeway type bridge of rubble construction. One segmental arch with set back ring of voussoirs with shallow ramped buttresses. Irregular flat coping to parapets. The parapets eventually peter out to W; to E the southern parapet terminates at the gate into a field; the listing continues the parapet to N a similar distance.
Reason for designation
One of a group of C18 causeway bridges in this area.
Nearby in the register
- Pont Pensarn (partly in Pwllheli Community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Pont PenmaenTransportunder 1 mi
- Ffynnon Felin BachCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Pont-y-Garreg FachanTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.