Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
23824
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/07/2000
Date of Amendment
27/07/2000
Name of Property
Gellifelen Tramroad Bridge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Llanelly
Town
Locality
Gellifelen
Easting
321946
Northing
211991
Street Side
Location
Bridges carries public road between Darrenfelen and Gellifelen over very sharp bend above steep river ravine. Approximately 1 km S of Darrenfelen.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Built 1821, as part of Joseph and Crawshay Bailey’s horse-powered tramroad between the Nantyglo Ironworks and the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal. The engineer was Thomas Hill of Blaenavon. The Nantyglo Ironworks Company applied to the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal Company to construct the line in 1820, but a delay was experienced because the proposed route crossed the Llam-march tramroad, belonging to the Clydach Ironworks. By April 1821, the Baileys were allowed to build the tramroad using their own capital and labour, and on 6th December 1821, the line opened, the Hereford Journal reporting that a line of trams were sent to Abergavenny laden with coal for the poor of the town.
Exterior
Rubble construction. Single semi-circular arch with stone voussoirs. Head of north arch has iron tie-bar. Low parapets with cemented copings.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved early C19 tramroad bridge, a prominent surviving structure of important industrial landscape of the Clydach Gorge.
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