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Latitude: 51.7359 / 51°44'9"N
Longitude: -3.8252 / 3°49'30"W
OS Eastings: 274063
OS Northings: 205713
OS Grid: SN740057
Mapcode National: GBR H2.1SMP
Mapcode Global: VH4JS.NM4L
Plus Code: 9C3RP5PF+9W
Entry Name: Ynysmeudwy Uchaf Overbridge on Swansea Canal
Listing Date: 26 October 1979
Last Amended: 13 March 2003
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11204
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300011204
Location: Situated approximately 60m SE of the Cwm Du bridge carrying the A4067 over the canal.
County: Neath Port Talbot
Community: Pontardawe
Community: Pontardawe
Built-Up Area: Pontardawe
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Bridge Road bridge
Canal bridge, late C18, over the Swansea Canal. 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 ruins of the former Ynysmeudwy Pottery Brickworks and later Bryn Tinplate works lie to the south. The iron ribs on the underside were added to strengthen the bridge at the expense of the Bryn Tinplate works. The tinplate works were built in 1880 on the site of the pottery which had closed in 1877.
Canal overbridge, rubble stone single arch bridge. Segmental arch with tooled cut stone voussoirs and soffit of 5 iron ribs bolted on each end. Parapets of large rubble stone slabs only on NW the rest presumably removed and repaired with cement. Small buttress on NE towpath side. This side also has a ramp access to towpath level.
Included as an intact canal overbridge of the late C18.
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