Latitude: 51.8733 / 51°52'23"N
Longitude: -4.0501 / 4°3'0"W
OS Eastings: 258962
OS Northings: 221404
OS Grid: SN589214
Mapcode National: GBR DT.S020
Mapcode Global: VH4J2.R57R
Plus Code: 9C3QVWFX+8X
Entry Name: Cilsan Bridge
Listing Date: 27 August 1999
Last Amended: 2 April 2007
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 22197
Building Class: Transport
Also known as: Pont Cilsan (partly in Llanfihangel Aberbythych)
ID on this website: 300022197
Location: On the River Towy carrying the road from Golden Grove village to Llangathen.
County: Carmarthenshire
Town: Llanelli
Community: Llanfihangel Aberbythych
Community: Llanfihangel Aberbythych
Locality: Cilsan Bridge
Traditional County: Carmarthenshire
Tagged with: Bridge Road bridge
The bridge was built near the site of the former Cilsan Ferry. It is believed that The Three Commons Turnpike Trust (dissolved 1845) had planned a bridge in this location, and there are references to a bridge here by the 1850s: in June 1850, the published 'Diary of Thomas Jenkins' has an entry as follows: 'took Miss Davies over Cilsan Bridge in phaeton', and R.K. Penson's 'Carmarthenshire Bridges 1854, sketches' notes a bill for bridge repairs at Cilsan. The 1839 Tithe map shows a newly built approach road (but no bridge) suggesting perhaps a bridge was built here c.1840-45.
Fine stone bridge of three equal spans. High arches, designed to cope with the notorious flooding of the Towy.
Squared limestone common masonry in small courses; dressings in ashlar: arches, cutwaters, parapets. The arches are semi-elliptical, with spans of about 18m. Cutwaters with a small offset at mid height, sloping top, countinued up to parapet level as shallow pilasters. The carriageway is wide, with low parapets each side. Grey limestone copings. At the approaches the carriageway is wider and the parapets are in a rougher masonry.
An elegant mid-Victorian main-road bridge in local masonry.
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