Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bridge over stream to W of Bedford Monument
Pontarfynach, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hafod, Ystrad Meurig, Pontarfynach, Ceredigion, designated on 16 March 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 16 March 2005
- Locality
- Hafod
- Town
- Ystrad Meurig
- Community
- Pontarfynach
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.34256, -3.81751
- Cadw reference
- 84247
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 178 Llanilar (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Carrying drive over stream some 60m W of monument to the Duke of Bedford.
History
Road bridge probably late C18 carrying Hafod drive over a small stream. The carriage drive here was in place by 1796.
Exterior
Road bridge, rubble stone with single narrow arched opening with dressed stone voussoirs and projecting long keystone on downstream face, rough voussoirs on upstream face. Parapet on downstream side lowered and capped in cement, surviving higher on upstream side.
Reason for designation
Included as a small road bridge, part of Thomas Johnes' improvements at Hafod.
Nearby in the register
- Monument to the Duke of Bedford, HafodCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- PencreigiauDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hawthorn CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Pendre FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.