Latitude: 51.6567 / 51°39'24"N
Longitude: -3.8354 / 3°50'7"W
OS Eastings: 273135
OS Northings: 196915
OS Grid: SS731969
Mapcode National: GBR H1.6XMQ
Mapcode Global: VH4K5.GMRC
Plus Code: 9C3RM547+MR
Entry Name: Bridge over S end of Skewen Cutting, Tennant Canal (partly in Dyffryn Clydach community)
Listing Date: 29 January 1980
Last Amended: 29 March 2000
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11833
Building Class: Transport
Also known as: Bridge over S end of Skewen Cutting, Tennant Canal (partly in Coedffranc community)
ID on this website: 300011833
Location: Spanning the Tennant Canal immediately N of the A465 and reached by a minor road beneath the A465 from Neath Abbey Industrial Estate.
County: Neath Port Talbot
Community: Coedffranc (Coed-ffranc)
Community: Coedffranc
Locality: Tennant Canal
Built-Up Area: Neath
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Bridge Road bridge
The Tennant Canal was built 1820-4, engineered by William Kirkhouse. The head of the canal was at Aberdulais, where it joins the Neath Canal, and ended at Port Tennant on the E side of the River Tawe in Swansea. Traffic was carried on the canal until the 1930s. Skewen Cutting is a stone-lined bed and was laid in 1821 to counter problems with quicksand. The bridge is probably contemporary with the cutting and is shown on the 1844 Tithe map.
A single-carriageway, single-span bridge of rubble stone with tooled voussoirs and jambs to a segmental arch. The abutments with integral parapet curve outwards. Some C19 coping stones survive, composed of square blocks or half-round blocks of copper slag. The flat deck, probably designed for a tramroad, is grass covered.
Listed for group value with other listed items associated with the Tennant Canal.
Scheduled Ancient Monument Gm 394.
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