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Carreghofa Aqueduct parallel to the Public Road 700m West of Llanymynech

A Grade II Listed Building in Carreghofa (Carreghwfa), Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.7787 / 52°46'43"N

Longitude: -3.0994 / 3°5'57"W

OS Eastings: 325940

OS Northings: 320686

OS Grid: SJ259206

Mapcode National: GBR 71.Y3LN

Mapcode Global: WH794.CFC5

Plus Code: 9C4RQWH2+F7

Entry Name: Carreghofa Aqueduct parallel to the Public Road 700m West of Llanymynech

Listing Date: 5 April 1993

Last Amended: 5 April 1993

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 14215

Building Class: Water Supply and Drainage

ID on this website: 300014215

Location: Half-a-mile west of Llanymynech midway between canal bridges 94 (Wern Bridge) and 93 (Walls Bridge); lies parallel to B4398.

County: Powys

Community: Carreghofa (Carreghwfa)

Community: Carreghofa

Locality: Wern

Traditional County: Montgomeryshire

Tagged with: Aqueduct

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History

Aqueduct inserted between 1866 and 1870 into the Llanymynech branch of the Ellesmere Canal (opened 1797) when the long cutting for the Potteries, Shrewsbury North Wales Railway was constructed.

Exterior

The canal is carried in a riveted metal-plated trough with canted sides supported by timber-capped longitudinal girders with triangular braces. Beneath are trabeated cast-iron supports running down the centre of the former double trackway; single and paired uprights with cross-brackets and flanged bases bolted to masonry piers.

Splayed bull-faced masonry abutment with ramped outer wall with stone cappings. Vertical joint divides aqueduct from brickwork of abutting road bridge. To the north are the remains of the canal approaches to a temporary aqueduct dismantled after the construction works.

Reasons for Listing

An exceptional, small-scale example of ironwork canal trough.
S Hughes, Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal, RCAHM (Wales) 1988, 157

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