Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ynysmeudwy Ganol Overbridge on Swansea Canal
Pontardawe, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 13 March 2003
- Locality
- Ynysmeudwy
- Town
- Swansea
- Community
- Pontardawe
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.72943, -3.83658
- Cadw reference
- 80994
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 on the Swansea Canal between the Ynysmeudwy Uchaf and Ynysmeuwy Isaf overbridges some 1.4km NE of the centre of Pontardawe.
History
Canal bridge, late C18, over the Swansea Canal. 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
Canal overbridge, rubble stone single arch bridge. Segmental arch with tooled cut stone voussoirs. Abutments curve out each side to square end piers. To N the parapet has been extended past the end piers. 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
- Waun y Coed Colliery Branch Canal and Tramroad InclineCanalunder 1 mi
- Ynysmeudwy Isaf Overbridge on Swansea CanalTransportunder 1 mi
- Waun Coed Colliery magazineIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Former National SchoolsEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.