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II  

Designated  

23/06/1967  

01/04/1998  

Pont Maesmor  

 

Conwy  

Llangwm  

 

Maerdy  

301535  

344568  

 

The bridge carries the minor road from off the Holyhead Road in Maerdy over the Afon Ceirw to Maesmor and beyond.  

Transport  

 

Built probably in the late C18 for the County Council as part of a scheme to improve local communications along rural roads.  

Built of local rubble stone. Two segmental arches, each spanning approximately 11m, both soffits rising to c2.65m above water level, the arch formed by 63cm deep rubble voussoirs slightly set in under a projecting regulating course, above which flush spandrels extend up into a slightly projecting stone-coped parapet. The arches span on to a central water pier with triangular cutwaters, rising to form refuges at carriageway level. The width of the bridge between parallel sides is 3.4m, providing a 2.6m width between the low parapets, which splay out on corbelled squints at the ends to terminate in square piers.  

 

Included as a fine example of a twin-span country bridge typical of late C18 engineering works in the rural areas.