Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Culvert taking Blaen Bran under Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal
Pontnewydd, Torfaen, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Five Locks, Cwmbran, Pontnewydd, Torfaen, designated on 31 January 2003.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2003
- Locality
- Five Locks
- Town
- Cwmbran
- Community
- Pontnewydd
- Unitary authority
- Torfaen
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.66417, -3.03102
- Cadw reference
- 80862
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1906 · 249 Newport (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated just S of Five Locks, some 200m S of Five Locks Road.
History
Small late C18 culvert taking the Blaen Bran under the Monmouthshire Canal. Built by Thomas Dadford Junior 1792-9, the canal ran between Newport and Pontnewydd, with a branch between Crindau and Crumlin.
Exterior
Rubble stone low tunnel with arched downstream opening under high rubble stone embanking wall with stone renewed parapet. Abutments are splayed each side, as are parapets above. Arch has stone voussoirs and walling is of squared stone laid in courses. Upstream side is much lower, without parapet, walling above arch partly replaced in red brick, and with splayed abutments.
Reason for designation
Included as a substantial masonary feature on an important late C18 canal.
Nearby in the register
- Milepost north of Five LocksTransportunder 1 mi
- Church of the Holy TrinityReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Canal Tunnel between Sebastopol and Cwmbran, including attached revetment wallsIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Milepost on Monmouthshire and Brecon CanalTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.