Latitude: 51.6404 / 51°38'25"N
Longitude: -3.0267 / 3°1'36"W
OS Eastings: 329048
OS Northings: 194008
OS Grid: ST290940
Mapcode National: GBR J4.7WXX
Mapcode Global: VH7B5.H189
Plus Code: 9C3RJXRF+58
Entry Name: Aqueduct over Dowlais Brook on Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (partly in the Llantarnam community)
Listing Date: 30 September 2003
Last Amended: 31 October 2003
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 82035
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300082035
Location: On the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal some 200m S of Two Locks Road in Cwmbran.
County: Torfaen
Town: Cwmbran
Community: Cwmbran Central (Cwmbrân - Canol)
Community: Cwmbran Central
Locality: Cwmbran
Built-Up Area: Cwmbran
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Late C18 aqueduct carrying the Monmouthshire Canal over the Dowlais Brook. The Monmouthshire Canal which was a prime factor in the industrial development of the Gwent Valleys and was built by Thomas Dadford Junior, 1792-9. The canal ran between Newport and Pontnewynydd, with a branch between Crindau and Crumlin.
Canal aqueduct over river, two tunnels of squared stone with segmental arched openings each side of canal. High stone embanking walls without parapets but with triangular piers on each side of and between tunnels. Piers have sloping tops and stop approximately 1m below top of wall. Abutments are splayed each side. Arches have stone voussoirs with raised keystones and walling is of squared stone laid in courses. River on downstream side is paved for some 6m with squared stone blocks terminating in low weir.
Included a substantial masonry feature on an important late C18 canal which was a prime factor in the industrial development of the Gwent Valleys.
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