Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Aberbechan Bridge
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 18 July 1949
- Locality
- Llanllwchaiarn
- Community
- Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.53594, -3.27532
- Cadw reference
- 8199
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 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Spanning the Bechan Brook on the community boundary below the junction of the B4568 with the B4389.
History
Mid/late C19,
Exterior
Single carriageway stone bridge. Imposing, tall round arch; dressed stone voussoirs, keystone. Impost band. Snecked masonry facing. Curved returns with pilasters to ends. Tooled freestone parapet over a string course to carriageway.
Nearby in the register
- Aberbechan Bridge (partly in Newtown & Llanllwchaiarn community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Aberbechan AqueductWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Aber Bechan DykeLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
- TynybitfelDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.