Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bridge over stream near Melin Pwllfanogl
Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 30 January 1968
- Locality
- Pwll-fanogl
- Community
- Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.21576, -4.20276
- Cadw reference
- 5456
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Over the stream running from the Afon Braint to the Menai Strait at Pwllfanogl, SW of Plas Llanfair.
History
Probably built in the C18 when the course of the Aberbraint was diverted and dammed to form a mill pond to serve the cornmill at Melin Pwll-fanogl. The road linked the parish of Llanfairpwll with the harbour at Pwllfanogl, a ship-building area in the C18, and dock for ferries crossing the Menai Strait, and location of the Boat Inn, Melin Pwll-fanogl and the Britannia Slate Works. The road to the mill and carriageway across the bridge was raised early C20 after the mill ceased working.
Exterior
Single span bridge of rubble masonry with segmental arch of squared voussoirs slightly inset below extrados course of narrow slabs, boulder parapet.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of a C18 bridge, associated with the nearby cornmill, slate mill, ferry inn and harbour which together formed a small industrial complex on the shores of the Menai Strait.
Nearby in the register
- Bridge over stream near Melin Pwll-fanogl.Transportunder 1 mi
- Hen FelinIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Min y MorDomesticunder 1 mi
- Entrance Archways, at Grand Lodge, Plas NewyddGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.