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Latitude: 51.6592 / 51°39'33"N
Longitude: -3.8341 / 3°50'2"W
OS Eastings: 273233
OS Northings: 197196
OS Grid: SS732971
Mapcode National: GBR H1.6QBF
Mapcode Global: VH4K5.HKFD
Plus Code: 9C3RM558+M9
Entry Name: Tramroad bridge over Skewen Cutting, Tennant Canal (partly in Dyffryn Clydach Community)
Listing Date: 29 March 2000
Last Amended: 29 March 2000
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 23067
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300023067
Location: Spanning the Tennant Canal to SE of Skewen village on the E side of a minor road from Neath Abbey Industrial Estate and N of the A465.
County: Neath Port Talbot
Community: Dyffryn Clydach
Community: Coedffranc
Locality: Tennant Canal
Built-Up Area: Neath
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Tram bridge
The Tennant Canal was built 1820-4, engineered by William Kirkhouse. The head of the canal was at Aberdulais, where it joins the Neath Canal, and ended at Port Tennant on the E side of the River Tawe in Swansea. Traffic was carried on the canal until the 1930s. Skewen Cutting is a stone-lined bed and was laid in 1821 to counter problems with quicksand. The bridge is possibly contemporary with the cutting and is shown on the 1844 Tithe map. It was used to carry coal to the nearby Mines Royal Copper Works and is first shown on the 1844 Tithe map.
A high rubble stone bridge over a segmental arch with tooled voussoirs. The abutments and parapet curve outwards at the ends, the latter having renewed concrete copings. A battered revetment is added to the SW jamb of the arch. The flat deck, built for a single track, is laid with concrete.
Listed for industrial archaeological interest as an early tramroad bridge and for group value with other listed items associated with the Tennant Canal.
Scheduled Ancient Monument Gm 394.
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