Latitude: 51.6601 / 51°39'36"N
Longitude: -3.8269 / 3°49'36"W
OS Eastings: 273733
OS Northings: 197287
OS Grid: SS737972
Mapcode National: GBR H2.6L3H
Mapcode Global: VH4K5.MJ7P
Plus Code: 9C3RM56F+36
Entry Name: Bridge over Tennant Canal to S of entrance to Neath Abbey
Listing Date: 29 January 1980
Last Amended: 22 December 2003
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11834
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300011834
Location: Crossing the Tennant Canal just S of the entrance to Neath Abbey.
County: Neath Port Talbot
Town: Neath
Community: Dyffryn Clydach
Community: Dyffryn Clydach
Locality: Neath Abbey
Built-Up Area: Neath
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Bridge Road bridge
Canal 'roving' bridge, where towpath changed sides, probably built 1821 by canal engineer William Kirkhouse. The canal opened in 1824 from the Neath Canal at Aberdulais to Port Tennant, Swansea. Traffic declined from the 1860s due to competition with railways but the canal did not close to commercial traffic until 1934.
Hump-backed canal bridge, rubblestone with single segmental arch of dressed sandstone voussoirs. Low parapets with coping of rectangular cast blocks of copper slag, some with Roman numerals cast in. Abutments splay outwards slightly on each side extended as wall on SW side. Former tow path crosses from S to N side of canal over bridge.
Included for historic transport interest as an early C19 canal bridge retaining its character.
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