Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ditchyeld Bridge
Old Radnor, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Lower Harpton, Old Radnor, Powys, designated on 26 November 1987.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 26 November 1987
- Locality
- Lower Harpton
- Community
- Old Radnor
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.24017, -3.05667
- Cadw reference
- 9189
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)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 180 Knighton (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Carrying the B4362 road from Presteigne to Old and New Radnor over the Hindwell Brook. Road junction with Evenjobb by-road on north bank.
Exterior
Rebuilt in later C18; earlier masonry fabric at south abutment (upstream side). Single segmental arch, coursed rubble with keyblock to arch ring. Voussoir rings to circular voids through haunches. Slightly projecting parapets to ramped roadway which curve out to finish with square piers.
River crossing of great antiquity, on line of Offa's Dyke.
Nearby in the register
- Fingerpost at Ditchyeld Bridge, WaltonTransportunder 1 mi
- Offa's Dyke: Section from Ditchyeld Bridge to County BoundaryLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Offa's Dyke: Section extending 380m from BurfaLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Mound and Bailey Castle 495m NW of Ditch Hill BridgeMotteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.