Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Canal Overbridge at Cwm-tawe-isaf
Ystalyfera, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 20 December 2002
- Locality
- Godre'r-graig
- Community
- Ystalyfera
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.74240, -3.81432
- Cadw reference
- 80810
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
Situated just to the N of Cwm-tawe-isaf farm some 150m N of the A4067 at Godre'r-graig
Exterior
Canal overbridge, rubble stone single arch humped bridge. Segmental arch with tooled cut stone voussoirs, one on E side with scratched figures possibly 1797. Abutments curve out each side to square end piers. Later C19 flight of 10 steps up on SW side. Parapets and piers have cement rounded copings.
Reason for designation
Included as an intact canal overbridge apparently of the late C18
Nearby in the register
- Cwm Du Outfall and overflow sluice on Swansea CanalTransportunder 1 mi
- Nant Du Aqueduct on Swansea Canal (partly in Pontardawe community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Nant Du Aqueduct on Swansea Canal (partly in Ystalyfera community)Water Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Ynysmeudwy Uchaf Overbridge on Swansea CanalTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.