Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont Talsarn
Llanfihangel Ystrad, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 3 June 1964
- Locality
- Talsarn
- Town
- Lampeter
- Community
- Llanfihangel Ystrad
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.18449, -4.13060
- Cadw reference
- 9818
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
Situated on B4337 just S of Talsarn village.
History
Mid to later C18 road bridge over the River Aeron.
Exterior
Rubble stone three-arched bridge with humped back and rubble stone parapets. Three recessed arches with cut stone voussoirs. Cutwaters to two main piers, on both sides, carried up to height of arch springings and capped in cement. Raised flat piers above. Parapets end in rough square piers, except at NE end.
Reason for designation
Listed as a substantial C18 triple arched masonry bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Pont Talsarn (partly in Nantcwnlle Community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Lodge at LlanllyrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Talsarn SmithyCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Red Lion InnCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.