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Latitude: 51.7031 / 51°42'11"N
Longitude: -3.7224 / 3°43'20"W
OS Eastings: 281072
OS Northings: 201893
OS Grid: SN810018
Mapcode National: GBR H6.3VT8
Mapcode Global: VH5GH.FGG7
Plus Code: 9C3RP73H+72
Entry Name: Bridge over Neath Canal at Ynysarwed
Listing Date: 15 December 2003
Last Amended: 15 December 2003
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 82273
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300082273
Location: On the Neath Canal some 700m SW of Abergarwed.
County: Neath Port Talbot
Town: Neath
Community: Resolven (Resolfen)
Community: Resolven
Locality: Ynysarwed
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Bridge Road bridge
Late C18 bridge crossing the Neath Canal giving access to Ynys-arwed Farm. The canal was originally planned from Pontneddfechan to Neath and was started in 1791 with Thomas Dadford Junior as General Surveyor. Thomas Sheasby replaced him in mid 1792 and the Neath Canal was completed in 1795. By 1799 the canal had been extended to the Giant's Grave near Briton Ferry.
Canal bridge, rubble stone, single segmental arch with tooled cut stone voussoirs. Slightly humped with rubble stone parapets with some thin stone copings on NE and NW quadrants, the rest in rounded cement. Abutments curve out slightly each side, the NW quadrant ending in a square pier and the parapets on the SW quadrant decending to towpath level.
Listed for its special historic interest as a largely unaltered bridge on this important C18 canal.
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