Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cleddau Railway Bridge (partly in New Moat Community)
Clynderwen, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 10 April 2004
- Locality
- Egremont
- Community
- Clynderwen
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.84330, -4.78033
- Cadw reference
- 82464
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 Eastern Cleddau W of the B4313, immediately N of Longridge Bridge, and approximately 3.5km W of Clynderwen.
History
Railway bridge built 1851-2 on the Carmarthen to Clarbeston Road section of the South Wales Railway, later extended to Neyland in 1856. The chief engineer was I K Brunel.
Exterior
A 2-span double-track viaduct of snecked freestone and hammer-dressed voussoirs to round arches. The central pier is tapering. A raised band is beneath the parapet, which has been heightened in snecked blockwork with metal fence. The high embankments have raked retaining walls.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a fine mid C19 railway bridge from the office of one of Britain's foremost civil engineers.
Nearby in the register
- Longridge Bridge (Partly in New Moat Community)No class recordedunder 1 mi
- Gelli Bridge (partly in Llawhaden community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Gelli BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Gelly EarthworkRathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.