Description

The following building shall be added to the list:-

LYDNEY STATION ROAD
SO 60 SW
7/10001 Former Severn and Wye
Railway Tramway
Bridge
- II
Tramway bridge. Built c1810 for Lydney and Lydbrook Canal Company (later Severn and Wye
Railway). Squared and coursed stone with ashlar parapet, set on a curved alignment with
voussoirs to semi-circular arch. A complete and rare example of a structure associated with a
horse-drawn tramway, preceding the introduction of steam-powered locomotion. The tramroad
was built to improve the export of Forest of Dean coal, both up the Wye to Hereford and to the
Thames Valley via the basin at Lydney and the Severn.
(Hadfield C, The Canals of South Wales and The Border, Cardiff, 1967, pp 208-17)

Listing NGR: SO6331301997

Selected Sources

• Hadfield, C, 'Canals of the British Isles' in The Canals Of South Wales And The Border, (1967), 208-217

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