Latitude: 53.0384 / 53°2'18"N
Longitude: -3.8048 / 3°48'17"W
OS Eastings: 279088
OS Northings: 350535
OS Grid: SH790505
Mapcode National: GBR 64.DL7V
Mapcode Global: WH669.JWFL
Plus Code: 9C5R25QW+93
Entry Name: Pont Llan
Listing Date: 17 March 1953
Last Amended: 17 July 1992
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 5901
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300005901
Location: Spans Afon Machno in Penmachno village centre.
County: Conwy
Community: Bro Machno
Community: Bro Machno
Locality: Penmachno
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
Tagged with: Bridge Road bridge
C18 stone bridge, replaced old Penmachno bridge swept away by great storm of 20 June 1779
Approx 60 metres long; carriageway approx 4m wide. Five arches; 2 main arches (cutwater between on upstream side) span river; 3 lower flood arches to W. Arches elliptical with thin voussoirs below shallow hoods. Slate parapet approx 1m high with vertically-set cappings. Inscription on stone on S parapet:
'Pont isel drafel ar dro - pont lydan
I wladwyr drafaelio
Pont a fydd mewn pant tra fo
Pont ar ochor Pentrefachno
I. Hughes a Harry Parry
O Garnarvon 1785.'
Inscription on rear of same stone with initials 'JWMO IWE' (?), and date
'AD 1903'. Stone also bears faint inscribed heads of two men with pipes said locally to be builders of bridge.
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