Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bridge over S end of Skewen Cutting, Tennant Canal (partly in Coedffranc community)
Dyffryn Clydach, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1980
- Locality
- Neath Abbey
- Town
- Neath
- Community
- Dyffryn Clydach
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.65665, -3.83534
- Cadw reference
- 82343
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
Spanning the Tennant Canal immediately N of the A465 and reached by a minor road S of the A465 from Neath Abbey Industrial Estate.
History
The Tennant Canal was built 1820-4, engineered by William Kirkhouse. The head of the canal was at Aberdulais, where it joins the Neath Canal, and ended at Port Tennant on the E side of the River Tawe in Swansea. Traffic was carried on the canal until the 1930s. Skewen Cutting is a stone-lined bed and was laid in 1821 to counter problems with quicksand. The bridge is probably contemporary with the cutting and is shown on the 1844 Tithe map.
Exterior
A single-carriageway, single-span bridge of rubble stone with tooled voussoirs and jambs to a segmental arch. The abutments with integral parapet curve outwards. Some C19 coping stones survive, composed of square blocks or half-round blocks of copper slag. The flat deck, probably designed for a tramroad, is grass covered.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with other listed items associated with the Tennant Canal. Scheduled Ancient Monument GM 394.
Nearby in the register
- Bridge over S end of Skewen Cutting, Tennant Canal (partly in Dyffryn Clydach community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Tennant Canal: Skewen Cutting and tramroad bridgeCanalunder 1 mi
- Tramroad bridge over Skewen Cutting, Tennant Canal (partly in Coedffranc community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Tramroad bridge over Skewen Cutting, Tennant Canal (partly in Dyffryn Clydach Community)Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.