Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
22509
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/10/1999
Date of Amendment
22/10/1999
Name of Property
Canal Bridge over Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal E of Cwmbyr (partly in Crosskeys Community)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Risca
Town
Locality
Risca
Easting
323189
Northing
191673
Street Side
Location
The W of the two remaining bridges in this surviving stretch of canal, N of Risca cemetery and S of the mountain burial ground.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
In 1790s a consortium of coal owners and industrialists sought Parliamentary approval to build canals to link the industrial areas of the N valleys with Newport on the Usk estuary, the canals in turn to link with a system of feeder tramroads. Bill received assent in 1792 and the Monmouthshire Canal Navigation Company was formed to build two canals; that in the Western Valley, also known as the Crumlin Arm and 11 miles long, was designed to join the Eastern Valley Canal just N of Newport, completed c 1797, engineer Thomas Dadford. Reservoirs to feed canal were constructed in mountain valleys. In 1865 the Brecknock and Abergavenny and Monmouthshire Canals merged to become the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal which was later incorporated into the Great Western Railway. Much of the Western Valley canal was filled in to provide a by-pass road but the section through Risca mostly survives, continuing on from the surviving Crosskeys section. The Sirhowy tramroad built at the expense of the Sirhowy and Tredegar ironmasters from their furnaces in the north valleys to Nine Mile Point, at the bottom of the Sirhowy Valley, N of Risca was completed 1805, linking with the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company tramroad via the Long Bridge, crossing the Ebbw Valley.
Exterior
See Record number 21006 in Crosskeys Community for full description of this bridge.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a late C18 canal bridge retaining its character.
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