Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Aqueduct on Dowlais Free Drainage System
Pant, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 11 March 2003
- Locality
- Pengarnddu
- Community
- Pant
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.76642, -3.34270
- Cadw reference
- 80964
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
History
Aqueduct built 1860/1865 on Dowlais Free Drainage System to carry watercourse to nearby reservoir over access way to common.
Exterior
Aqueduct, grey stone, segmental arch approximately 2.4m high and 1.4m span with stone voussoirs. Angled wing-walls and buttresses in stone with soffit in red brick. Parapets repaired with cement. Watercourse some 1m wide lined with brick. Tunnel some 4m long, the N side being part buried in overburden in 1979.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as part of the historically important Dowlais Free Drainage System.
Nearby in the register
- Lower RowDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mile PostTransportunder 1 mi
- White Gate Road Bridge and AqueductTransportunder 1 mi
- Former Guest Memorial LibraryRecreationalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.