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Nant Du Aqueduct on Swansea Canal (partly in Pontardawe community)
Ystalyfera, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 20 December 2002
- Locality
- Ynysmeudwy
- Community
- Ystalyfera
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.73649, -3.82430
- Cadw reference
- 80811
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 approximately 60m SE of the Cwm Du bridge carrying the A4067 over the canal.
History
Late C18 aqueduct carrying Swansea Canal over Nant Du. The 16-mile Swansea Canal was opened in 1798 to Hen Neuadd, Abercraf, declined after the railway opened in 1852 and closed in 1931.
Exterior
Small aqueduct on NE-SW axis. Squared stone with voussoirs to a segmental arch of some 0.6 metres in height and of 4.1 metres span.
Reason for designation
Included for its group value with Ynysmeudwy Uchaf Bridge and the Cwmddu outfall and overflow sluice.
Nearby in the register
- Nant Du Aqueduct on Swansea Canal (partly in Ystalyfera community)Water Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Cwm Du Outfall and overflow sluice on Swansea CanalTransportunder 1 mi
- Ynysmeudwy Uchaf Overbridge on Swansea CanalTransportunder 1 mi
- Waun Coed Colliery magazineIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.