Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pwll y Llygoed Tramroad Bridge
Trimsaran, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pont Newydd, Trimsaran, Carmarthenshire, designated on 23 July 2003.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 23 July 2003
- Locality
- Pont Newydd
- Community
- Trimsaran
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.73840, -4.25184
- Cadw reference
- 81328
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 229 Carmarthen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1920 · Sheet 100. Llanelly. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Spanning the Gwendraeth Fawr river approximately 2.3km NNW of Trimsaran, and immediately N of Maesgwendraeth Farm.
History
Part of a tramroad that took coal from collieries at Carway to Kymer's Canal, which was completed in 1769. The date of the tramroad, and bridge, is not certain. The tramroad is said to have been built c1770, which would make the bridge the oldest surviving railway bridge in Wales, and alternatively to have been built c1802. Masonry details suggest that the present bridge was built later, although still perhaps in the first half of the C19, and therefore replaced an earlier structure. The tramroad was still in use in 1863.
Exterior
A single-span bridge of coursed stone (overgrown at the time of inspection). Its segmental arch has hammer-dressed voussoirs.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special industrial-archaeological interest as an early railway bridge, associated with the oldest canal in Wales.
Scheduled Monument CM261.
Nearby in the register
- Kymer's Canal and Pwll y Llygoed Tramroad BridgeCanalunder 1 mi
- Spudder's BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- Pont Spwdwr (Spudder's Bridge)Transportunder 1 mi
- Milepost on BryncaerauNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.