Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Tremadoc Tramway bridge over drainage ditch
Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 26 September 2005
- Locality
- Tremadog
- Town
- Porthmadog
- Community
- Porthmadog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.93470, -4.14149
- Cadw reference
- 85376
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
To the N of Pensyflog Farm, on a footpath between Tremadog and Porthmadog, approximately 0.5km S of Tremadog Market Square.
History
A simple bridge built over a drainage ditch for the Tremadoc Tramway of c1845, which carried iron ore from nearby Llidiart Ysbytty to Porthmadog harbour. From the late 1850s it was incorporated into the slate-carrying Gorseddau horse-drawn tramway, which became locomotive powered in the 1870s and operated until the 1890s. It is now a footpath.
Exterior
Effectively a short culvert, the entrances of which have round arches with freestone voussoirs, but mainly concealed by vegetation.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as one of the few surviving structures in Porthmadog associated with the former mineral railways supplying the port.
Nearby in the register
- Capel PenielReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ty Nanney, including forecourt walls, gate piers and gateDomesticunder 1 mi
- Snowdon LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gateway to the Church of Saint MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.