Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Felinrhyd-fawr (partly in Talsarnau community)
Maentwrog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Maentwrog, Gwynedd, designated on 28 April 1952.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 28 April 1952
- Locality
- Maentwrog
- Community
- Maentwrog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.93651, -4.00502
- Cadw reference
- 4771
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 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Carrying the A496, c 1.5km to S and W of Maentwrog and spanning the Afon Prysor. Spans the boundary between Maentwrog and Talsarnau.
History
Probably late C18 or early C19 road bridge. Merioneth was the last of the Welsh counties to have turnpike roads and it was at a county meeting in Dolgellau in 1775 that it was resolved to convert the principal tracks of the county into turnpikes, in partnership with Caernarfonshire. By the end of the C18 most of the existing roads had been brought under the Trust under the Merioneth Turnpike Act of 1777. What is now the A496 was constructed following the reclaimation of Traeth Mawr, and the erection of the Cob at Porthmadog, which opened in 1808. It replaced the former county road between Harlech and Maentwrog which had followed an old packhorse route crossing the adjacent Ivy Bridge.
Exterior
Large road bridge built of coursed masonry including long blocks of slate. A single segmental arch with dripcourse and flanking pilasters; low parapet, also with dripcourse and raking stone slab coping.
Reason for designation
Listed as a scarcely altered late C18 or early C19 road bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Pont Felinrhyd-fawr (that part in Talsarnau Community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Ivy Bridge (partly in Talsarnau community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Ivy Bridge (that part in Talsarnau Community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Haybarn (E) at Felinrhyd-fawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.