Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tramway Embankment of Grosmont Railway
Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Crucorney, Monmouthshire, recorded as Earthwork (unclassified) (Post Medieval/Modern).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Earthwork (unclassified)
- Period
- Post Medieval/Modern
- Date of designation
- 8 November 1976
- Community
- Crucorney
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.88497, -2.97048
- SAM number
- MM199
- Cadw record number
- 3139
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1588 map "Ortelius, Abraham: Theatro De La Tierra Universal. 0" (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1588 · Ortelius, Abraham: Theatro De La Tierra Universal. 0 (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 214 Talgarth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument consists of an earthwork or embankment, which carried the line of the Grosmont Railway across a broad shallow valley north of Llanvihangel Court. It comprises a steep sided bank 6m-8m high with a flat top around 2m wide. There are a number of sleeper stones still in place along the line of the embankment, many of which show the imprints of the chairs that would have held the rails in place. The Grosmont Railway was one of three interconnecting tramways running from Abergavenny to Hereford which opened in March 1814. The tramway closed in 1853 when it was replaced by the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of defensive, agricultural or settlement organisation. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- The Moat Mound and Bailey Castle, Tre FedwMotte and Baileyunder 1 mi
- Twr Mihangel (formerly known as Treturret)Defenceunder 1 mi
- Calvinistic Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Skirrid Inn, with attached barnCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.