Iron Footbridge over the Swansea Canal, Clydach, Swansea

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6944 / 51°41'39"N

Longitude: -3.8971 / 3°53'49"W

OS Eastings: 268974

OS Northings: 201215

OS Grid: SN689012

Mapcode National: GBR GZ.M667

Mapcode Global: VH4JY.DNLZ

Plus Code: 9C3RM4V3+P5

Entry Name: Iron Footbridge over the Swansea Canal

Listing Date: 15 December 2003

Last Amended: 15 December 2003

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 82327

Building Class: Transport

ID on this website: 300082327

Location: Crossing the Swansea Canal just S of Capel Calfaria and some 75m NE of the junction of the Lower Clydach River and the Afon Tawe.

County: Swansea

Town: Swansea

Community: Clydach

Built-Up Area: Swansea

Traditional County: Glamorgan

Tagged with: Bridge Footbridge

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History

Footbridge over the Swansea Canal, dated 1887. The 16-mile Swansea Canal was opened in 1798 to Hen Neuadd, Abercraf, declined after the railway opened in 1852 and closed in 1931. The bridge was installed by the Swansea Canal Company as a toll bridge and later the toll rights were sold to a local mining company. Said to have been made by the Neath Abbey Ironworks but this closed in 1886 a year before the date on the stone piers.

Exterior

Footbridge, of two large I-beams made up of rivetted plates joined by T-section pieces, with flat bottom piece and top handrail made up of two hollow rails bolted back-to-back. Decking and linking struts beneath replaced in late C20. Bridge is supported on rubble stone piers with rubble stone ramp up each side from towpaths, ramps of coursed rock-faced squared rubble stone with sloping parapets.

Reasons for Listing

Included for its special historic interest as an unusual surviving industrial footbridge.

External Links

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Capel Calfaria
Situated near to the centre of Clydach approximately 50m E of the bridge over the Lower Clydach River.
II Piers and railings at Calfaria Baptist Chapel
Situated near to centre of Clydach in front of Capel Calfaria approximately 50m E of the bridge over the Lower Clydach River
II Swansea Canal aqueduct over the Lower Clydach River
Some 100m S of the High Street near the junction of the Lower Clydach River and the Afon Tawe.
II Church of Saint Mary
At the W end of the High Street some 75m E of the bridge over the Lower Clydach River.
II Milestone on S side of High Street
Built into outside of churchyard wall of Church of Saint John on the S side of the High Street.
II Church of Saint John the Baptist
In a prominent position at the E end of the High Street just N of the Swansea Canal and the former Mond Nickel Works.
II Milestone on NE side of Vardre Road
Built into the wall outside No 67 Vardre Road.
II Statue of Sir Ludwig Mond
Situated in its own garden at the junction of Ynys-penllwch Road and Pontardawe Road.

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Iron Footbridge over the Swansea Canal

A Grade II Listed Building in Clydach, Swansea