Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Railway Bridge Spanning the main coast road on a skewed line
Holywell, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in skewed line, Holywell, Flintshire, designated on 19 August 1991.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 19 August 1991
- Locality
- skewed line
- Community
- Holywell
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.28812, -3.20541
- Cadw reference
- 500
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 96 Liverpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
0.3km from SE of the Junction with Greenfiled Road and Bagillt Road
History
Built in 1869 by Holywell Railway Company to carry a railway line S from the wharf up towards Holywell town. This line was unsuccessful and the company was wound up; after that it was used solely for transport to and from the Parys Mine Company Limestone Works - this traffic also ceased by late C19. In 1906 the LNWR reopened it as a goods line and in 1912 followed this with a passenger service; the latter involved extending the line into the centre of Holywell. A new curve was also made to link it with the main Chester to Holyhead Railway. Together this created the steepest (1:27) conventional passenger service in Britain. Closed in 1955.
Exterior
Tall bull-nosed rubble bridge with semicircular brick arch and brick soffit; stone impost bands. Stringcourse below parapet which have end pilasters.
Ramped and battered revetment walls to both sides with railings at base.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special intrest to the railway history of Holywell and the Greenfield Valley.
Nearby in the register
- Basingwerk AbbeyReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Basingwerk AbbeyAbbeyunder 1 mi
- GlanllynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Abbey HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.