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Latitude: 52.9424 / 52°56'32"N
Longitude: -3.782 / 3°46'55"W
OS Eastings: 280345
OS Northings: 339816
OS Grid: SH803398
Mapcode National: GBR 64.LRRK
Mapcode Global: WH66W.W96N
Plus Code: 9C4RW6R9+W5
Entry Name: Pont y Porthmyn
Listing Date: 22 October 2001
Last Amended: 22 October 2001
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 25809
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300025809
Location: Spanning a stream some 30m N of the road, and some 50m E of Pont Tai Hirion.
County: Gwynedd
Community: Llanycil
Community: Llanycil
Locality: Pont Rhyd-y-Fen
Traditional County: Merionethshire
Tagged with: Bridge
Vernacular regional bridge perhaps medieval; formerly carrying a track or road now lost but apparently formerly leading to Ysbyty Ifan where the Knights Hospitallers had a commandary. Edward Lhuyd mentions the bridge in the 1690s as 'Pont Rhyd y Porthnyn.' The name links the bridge with cattle droving.
Single-span vernacular bridge with rough-dressed voussoirs to a depressed pointed arch. There are no parapets (and probably never were).
Listed as a possibly C17 regional bridge retaining original character, a rare survivor of an early vernacular bridge.
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