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Latitude: 51.6975 / 51°41'51"N
Longitude: -2.7179 / 2°43'4"W
OS Eastings: 350482
OS Northings: 200110
OS Grid: SO504001
Mapcode National: GBR JK.491G
Mapcode Global: VH87D.VL1J
Plus Code: 9C3VM7XJ+2V
Entry Name: Fish Pool Dam
Listing Date: 29 September 2000
Last Amended: 9 October 2001
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 24059
Building Class: Water Supply and Drainage
ID on this website: 300024059
Location: About 3000m west of Tintern Abbey beside the road to Devauden.
County: Monmouthshire
Town: Chepstow
Community: Tintern (Tyndyrn)
Community: Devauden
Locality: Pont-y-saeson
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Tagged with: Dam
This dam was constructed to provide power for the Pont-y-saeson Forge which was about 500m below it. Little is known about this forge which may have begun functioning as early as 1675, but the dam is probably at least C18 in origin.
The dam is constructed of rubble sandstone walling. The upstream side has eight low arches with elliptical heads for the sluices. The downstream side has the spillways from these with an over-spill or fish ladder to the right. The dam provides a 3.5m head of water in its current state. The dam is about 20m long and about 2.5m wide. The crest of the dam has been rebuilt in the late C20 as a part of its current role as a fishing lake.
Included as a well preserved small mill dam dating possibly from the C18, and as a part of an important group of surviving relics of the metal industry in the Anghidy valley.
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