Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bridge over stream to W of Bedford Monument
Pontarfynach, Ceredigion, Wales
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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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (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.