Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Maentwrog
Maentwrog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Maentwrog, Gwynedd, designated on 30 November 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 30 November 1996
- Locality
- Maentwrog
- Community
- Maentwrog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.94748, -3.98869
- Cadw reference
- 4824
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
Roadbridge spanning the Afon Dwyryd, linking the A487(T) and the A496 to N of the village of Maentwrog.
History
Probably late C18 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.
Exterior
Late C18 road bridge comprising 3 spans with elliptical arches of stone voussoirs; string course above arches and a low parapet wall with stone slab copings. Triangular cutwaters between the arches on either side of the bridge have raking tops.
Reason for designation
Listed as a little altered late C18 road bridge. Forms a group with the adjacent milestone and tollgate cottage at the N end of the village of Maentwrog.
Nearby in the register
- Milestone at Pont MaentwrogTransportunder 1 mi
- Tollgate Cottage aka CerdwydDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Old RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stable block to S of The Old RectoryAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.