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Latitude: 51.5563 / 51°33'22"N
Longitude: -3.603 / 3°36'10"W
OS Eastings: 288967
OS Northings: 185371
OS Grid: SS889853
Mapcode National: GBR HC.F2G5
Mapcode Global: VH5HB.H4MS
Plus Code: 9C3RH94W+GR
Entry Name: Cildeudy tunnel
Listing Date: 23 October 1998
Last Amended: 23 October 1998
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 20742
Building Class: Industrial
ID on this website: 300020742
Location: The tunnel runs under the Cildeudy Road immediately W of its junction with the main A4063 Maesteg Road, at the S end of Goetre-hen.
County: Bridgend
Town: Llangynwyd Lower
Community: Llangynwyd Lower (Llangynwyd - Isaf)
Community: Llangynwyd Lower
Locality: Goetre-hen
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Tunnel
The tunnel was built by Sir Robert Price, industrialist, MP for Herefordshire between 1837 and 1847, to carry his private line under Cildeudy Road to transport coals from Bettws Colliery to his ironworks at Tondu. The private tramway was built when Sir Robert, originally a major shareholder in the Duffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Tramway, considered the level of haulage tolls charged by the Duffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Railway were too great to be borne.
The tramway tunnel is built of local stone, and is approximately 42.5m long and 2.4m wide, the arch intrados reaching approximately 2.55m above the track bed. Each portal consists of a semicircular arch of regular ashlar voussoirs, 33cm deep with an emphasised drop keystone, and rises from hammer-dressed springers. The retaining wall either side of the N portal is curved and includes refactory brick wasters from Price's brickworks at Tondu, of irregular sizes, including 290 x 85mm, 120 x 350mm and the largest at 340 x 410mm. One is impressed with the digits S[3]8, another 30. The water leet serving the ironworks, which elsewhere runs parallel to the tramway, is conducted through the same tunnel below the level of the rails.
Included as one of the best preserved tramroad tunnels in S Wales.
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