Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lower Wych Bridge (partly in Wigland Civil Parish, Cheshire)
Bronington, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Lower Wych, Bronington, Wrexham, designated on 20 October 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 20 October 2005
- Locality
- Lower Wych
- Community
- Bronington
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.99460, -2.76880
- Cadw reference
- 85473
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 1637 map "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1861 · 73. Market Drayton. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 122 Nantwich (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Spanning the Wych brook immediately NW of Brook Farm.
History
An early C19 bridge shown on the 1911 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A single-span single-carriageway ashlar bridge in red sandstone. It has a segmental arch with voussoirs, and a raised band below the parapet. The parapet has terminal rectangular piers, beyond which a lower revetment continues at each end.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved small C19 road bridge of good architectural character.
Nearby in the register
- Pen-y-brynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Higher Barns LodgeNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Shippon and piggery at Higher Barns LodgeNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Shippon at Kil Green CottageNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.