Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Cwmwysg
Llywel, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cwmwysg, Llywel, Powys, designated on 26 August 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 26 August 2005
- Locality
- Cwmwysg
- Community
- Llywel
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94148, -3.67037
- Cadw reference
- 85281
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (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)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 213 Brecon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 2.5 km SW of Trecastle, just SE of Saron Chapel.
History
Road bridge over the Usk, probably early C19.
Exterior
Road bridge, squared rubble stone, humpbacked, with tooled stone voussoirs and raised keystone. Parapets of rubble stone project slightly over arch each side, have stone copings, and are splayed out each end.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-constructed humpbacked road bridge of special historic interest.
Nearby in the register
- Tyle-mawr round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Pant Madog round cairnRound Cairn1 mi
- Gwern-Wyddog Standing StoneStanding Stone1 mi
- Meity IsafDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.