Latitude: 51.7215 / 51°43'17"N
Longitude: -3.6792 / 3°40'45"W
OS Eastings: 284106
OS Northings: 203862
OS Grid: SN841038
Mapcode National: GBR H8.2M9Q
Mapcode Global: VH5GB.5ZTP
Plus Code: 9C3RP8CC+H8
Entry Name: Rheola overbridge on Neath Canal
Listing Date: 28 March 1990
Last Amended: 30 January 2004
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11853
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300011853
Location: Crossing the Neath Canal S of the B4242 some 400m SE of Rheola House.
County: Neath Port Talbot
Town: Neath
Community: Glynneath (Glyn-nedd)
Community: Glynneath
Locality: Rheola
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Bridge Road bridge
Late C18 bridge crossing the Neath Canal refurbished in the 1980s as part of the restoration of four miles of the Neath Canal from Resolven to Yscwrfa Bridge. 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. Humped with C20 cement deck. Rubble stone parapets with thin cement coping splayed out to square piers.
Listed for its special historic interest as a bridge retaining its character on this important C18 canal.
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