Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont-y-Garreg Fachan
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
- 52.88504, -4.43441
- Cadw reference
- 4600
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 boundary of the Community Council carrying the Pwllheli/Abersoch road over the Afon Adwyryd.
History
Probably mid to late C18
Exterior
3-arched rubble bridge with flat roadway. Segmental arches with voussoirs. N (upstream side) has pointed cutwaters; on this side the parapet has a short return to the E side and a buttress to the W side, at which point the listing ceases. On the downstream side the parapet peters out to W and E ends.
Nearby in the register
- Pont PenmaenTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont PensarnTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont Pensarn (partly in Pwllheli Community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Ffynnon Felin BachCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.