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Latitude: 51.7307 / 51°43'50"N
Longitude: -4.6908 / 4°41'26"W
OS Eastings: 214278
OS Northings: 206977
OS Grid: SN142069
Mapcode National: GBR GF.M0QJ
Mapcode Global: VH2PD.NR1M
Plus Code: 9C3QP8J5+7M
Entry Name: Saundersfoot Railway Bridge
Listing Date: 7 May 1997
Last Amended: 7 May 1997
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 18446
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300018446
Location: Located on Ford Lake, which is now the Community boundary. The bridge is partly in the Community of Saundersfoot and partly in the Community of Amroth.
County: Pembrokeshire
Community: Saundersfoot
Community: Saundersfoot
Locality: Pleasant Valley
Built-Up Area: Stepaside
Traditional County: Pembrokeshire
Tagged with: Railway bridge
This bridge is part of the Saundersfoot Railway, which was authorised under an Act of 31 June 1829, promoted by Sir Richard Philipps and others. The branch to Wiseman's Bridge was in use by 1834, and extended to the colliery at Kilgetty in 1836. The railway was laid to the gauge of 4 ft (1.2 m). The railway was never used officially for public transport. In 1874 a locomotive was introduced on this line for the first time, specially constructed for the limited dimensions of the tunnels. The track was re-laid to carry it. The locomotive was a saddle-tank design by Manning Wardle. The railway remained in use until 1939 when the rails were scrapped. The route is now a public walk.
Single-arch semicircular skew-bridge in local sandstone with a span of about 2.5 m and a length of about 4 m. Voussoirs about 0.3 m deep, with no embellishment; the facing arch survives only on the upstream side. The upstream river bank on the Amroth side is revetted in stone for a distance of about 10 m. Very little survives of similar reinforcement to the bank on the Saundersfoot side, or either side below the bridge.
Listed as a significant relic of an exceptionally early railway.
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