Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Footbridge beside the Lane through Catershook Wood
Lampeter Velfrey, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 24 August 1989
- Locality
- Catershook Wood
- Town
- Kilgetty
- Community
- Lampeter Velfrey
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.75597, -4.72199
- Cadw reference
- 6553
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Reached by an unclassified road running SE from the A478 just S of Templeton; 1km from the main road, in Catershook Wood. It bypasses a ford at Ford Lake (now culverted). On the Community boundary between Kilgetty Begelly and Lampeter Velfrey.
History
A footbridge marked on the 1888 25" OS map. It is probably early or mid C19.
Exterior
A long narrow footbridge, about 40m in length, but only 1m wide between the parapets. Three widely-spaced low openings of horseshoe shape with voussoirs; two of the openings have some concrete repair. The bridge is distinctive for its parapet walls; in proportion to the width of the bridge they are very high, perhaps indicating that animals were taken along this route. The parapets are gently ramped down at each end; right down to ground level on the road side. Modern rounded cement coping.
Reason for designation
Listed as a distinctively constructed masonry footbridge.
Nearby in the register
- Milepost South of Templeton VillageTransportunder 1 mi
- Poyer's FarmhouseDomestic1 mi
- Milestone on A478 outside Footlands FarmNo class recorded1 mi
- Templeton FarmhouseDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.