Crossings of the River Wye
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The crossings of the River Wye include footbridges, road bridges, rail bridges, viaducts, ferries and a tunnel, found in their variety along the whole length of the river, 133 miles from its source to the River Severn.
There are some 15 Grade II listed bridges, just 1 Grade II* listed bridge and 3 Grade I listed bridges.
Crossings
| Status | Criteria |
|---|---|
| I | Grade I listed. Bridge of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important |
| II* | Grade II* listed. Particularly important bridge of more than special interest |
| II | Grade II listed. Bridge of national importance and special interest |
In order, moving downstream:
| Crossing | Location / co-ords | Built | Heritage status |
Locality | Notes | Refs | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y Drum Bridge | 52°27’4"N, 3°43’37"W | 1965 | Pont Rhydgaled | The first bridge over the Wye, 2 miles below it's source. A steel beam structure with a wooden deck, 33 feet long with two cylindrical columns mid-span. | [1] | ||
| Pont Cefn-Brwyn | 52°26’25"N, 3°43’22"W | about 1910 | Pont Rhygaled | Built to serve the lead mines in Nant Iago. The bridge was strengthened in 1975 to allow road vehicles from the Institue of Hydrology to reach a weir upstream of the bridge. | [1] | File:Llangurig from the bridge over the Wye geograph-2085955-by-Bill-Boaden.jpg | |
| Pont Rhydgaled | 52°25’48"N, 3°42’24"W | 1800[1] | Pont Rhydgaled | Carries A44 over river just above its confluence with the Afon Tarrenig. Close to Sweeter Still rally stage. | |||
| Nanty | 52°25’26"N, 3°41’12"W | 1992 | A 3-span wooden footbridge built to replace an earlier structure. The Nanty Lead Mine was located here, but closed in 1867 - the bridge is also known as the Nanty Mine Bridge. | [1] | File:Llangurig from the bridge over the Wye geograph-2085955-by-Bill-Boaden.jpg | ||
| Footbridge | 1992 | The Wye Valley Walk footbridge | File:Footbridge over the River Wye - geograph.org.uk - 552998.jpg | ||||
| Waun Capel Parc footbridge | 52°18’5"N, 3°30’54"W | 1965 | - | Rhayader | A single-span made of three continuous truss girders of welded steel, built by the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers. | [1] | File:Rhayader footbridge.jpg |
| Rhayader road bridge | Carries the B4518 road. | File:River Wye at Rhayader - geograph.org.uk - 1526695.jpg | |||||
| Glyn Bridge | File:Glyn Bridge Powys Wales.jpg | ||||||
| Llanwrthwl Bridge | |||||||
| Yr Allt Farm bridge | Farm access | ||||||
| Newbridge-on-Wye Bridge | |||||||
| Brynwern Bridge | |||||||
| Builth Road Railway Bridge | Near Builth Road railway station. | Located on the Heart of Wales Line. | File:Builth Road Wye Bridge.jpg | ||||
| Wye Bridge, Builth Wells | II | Builth Wells | File:Afon Gwy - River Wye - geograph.org.uk - 1376087.jpg | ||||
| Erwood Bridge | Erwood | Carries the B4594 road. | File:Erwood Bridge.jpg | ||||
| Lady Milford's Bridge | - | Llanstephan | File:Lady Milford's Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 383015.jpg | ||||
| Boughrood Bridge | II | File:Boughrood, the bridge over the Wye - geograph.org.uk - 1365721.jpg | |||||
| Glasbury Bridge | File:Bridge at Glasbury.jpg | ||||||
| Hay Bridge | Crossed over the river from Radnorshire to Brecknockshire as well as the currently closed Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway. It is near the former Hay-on-Wye station which is on the southern side, in Herefordshire. | File:Hay Bridge, Hay-on-Wye - geograph.org.uk - 583448.jpg | |||||
| Whitney-on-Wye Railway Bridge | Demolished on the former Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway which is currently closed. | File:River Wye west of Whitney Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 471032.jpg | |||||
| Whitney-on-Wye toll bridge | II | File:Whitney-on-Wye Toll Bridge.jpg | |||||
| Bredwardine Bridge | II | File:Bredwardine Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 91876.jpg | |||||
| Bridge Sollers Bridge | This bridge replaced one dating from 1896, it was opened in 2004. | File:Wye River bridge Bridge Sollers - geograph.org.uk - 1506624.jpg | |||||
| Hunderton Bridge | - | Hereford | On the former Goods Line, part of the original Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway | File:Hunderton Bridge - 1 - geograph.org.uk - 852813.jpg | |||
| Greyfriars bridge (A49 road) | File:A49 road bridge over the Wye at Hereford - IMG 0088.JPG | ||||||
| Wye Bridge, Hereford | I | Late C15, widened 1826. Ashlar sandstone. 6 arches, 1
rebuilt C17; V-shaped cutwaters with refuges over; bands; chamfered ashlar coping. |
File:Wye Bridge, Hereford - geograph.org.uk - 13799.jpg | ||||
| Victoria Bridge | II | Footbridge over River Wye. c1897. Built by Findlay of Motherwell. Concrete piers with ashlar cutwaters; semi-suspension central span; lattice-work towers and parapets; terracotta piers with cast-iron lamp columns. Erected by public subscription to mark Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. | File:Victoria Footbridge - Hereford.jpg | ||||
| Greenway Bridge | - | Rotherwas, Hereford | Bridge links the Bartonsham and Rotherwas areas of Hereford. | File:Greenway-Bridge-credit-David-Griffiths-Eye-Contact-Media-cropped.jpg | |||
| Eign Bridge | - | Rotherwas, Hereford | Built as part of the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway which line is largely closed apart from the section here which is part of the Welsh Marches Line. | File:Eign bridge, Hereford-geograph-5127534-by-John-Winder.jpg | |||
| Holme Lacy Bridge | - | File:The Holme Lacy Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 116064.jpg | |||||
| Ballingham Railway Bridge | 51°58’21"N, 2°37’39"W | 1855-1859 | Ballingham | Carried the closed Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway over the river, the bridge decking is demolished. | [1] | File:Ruined railway bridge over the Wye near Carey - geograph.org.uk - 331159.jpg | |
| Hoarwithy Bridge | - | File:Hoarwithy Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 1356599.jpg | |||||
| Sellack Suspension Bridge | II | File:Suspension Footbridge over the River Wye - geograph.org.uk - 462183.jpg | |||||
| Foy Bridge | - | File:Foy suspension bridge over the river Wye - geograph.org.uk - 55552.jpg | |||||
| Strangford Railway Bridge | - | Currently closed Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway line. Decking spanning the river demolished. | File:Disused rail bridge at Strangford over the River Wye - geograph.org.uk - 244569.jpg | ||||
| Backney Railway Bridge | - | Currently closed Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway line. | File:Dismantled railway bridge - Backney - geograph.org.uk - 558261.jpg | ||||
| Bridstow Bridge | - | Bridstow bridge, completed in 1960, carries the A40 trunk road over the river Wye near Ross-on-Wye. It is 353 fee long and comprises two cantilever sets and a suspended span. | File:The Bridstow Bridge, Ross-on-Wye - geograph.org.uk - 100166.jpg | ||||
| Wilton Bridge | I | An exceptionally fine stone bridge. In 1597 an Act was passed authorising its construction. It was completed within the next 2 years. 5 semicircular arches each with 3 ribs. Massive cutwaters on each side carried up and splayed back from the outer angle at parapet level forming semi-hexagonal refuges. At the point where the splay dies out is a moulded string which is mitred and carried up to the angle against the spandrils of the arches and then mitred and carried across to form a label above the arches. The voussoirs of the arches are chamfered and joggled and have various masons' marks. On upstream side the bridge has been widened but now the parapet has gone and been replaced by a wooden handrail. South East approach to bridge has been rebuilt in ashlar with 2 flights of stone steps to the river bank. The sundial, formerly in one of the refuges has gone and only the base of the pedestal remains. | File:Wilton Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 1437878.jpg | ||||
| Kerne Bridge | II | Road bridge. 1828 by B D Jones. Ashlar. Five-span bridge with large central arch flanked by graded arches each separated by triangular shaped cutwaters rising to pilaster buttresses, solid parapet. | File:Kerne Bridge over the River Wye - geograph.org.uk - 1445894.jpg | ||||
| Welsh Bicknor Railway Bridge | - | On the currently closed Ross and Monmouth Railway. | File:The old railway bridge at Welsh Bicknor - geograph.org.uk - 70822.jpg | ||||
| Huntsham Bridge | II | File:Huntsham Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 472055.jpg | |||||
| Hand ferry at the Ye Old Ferrie Inn | - | Symonds Yat | File:The Olde Ferry Inn - geograph.org.uk - 540640.jpg | ||||
| Hand ferry at the Saracens Head Inn | - | Symonds Yat | File:Chain ferry, River Wye - geograph.org.uk - 728162.jpg | ||||
| Biblins Bridge | - | Site of Biblins Youth Campsite | File:Biblins Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 733946.jpg | ||||
| Wye Bridge, Monmouth | II | Built in 1617 | File:Monmouth Wye Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 288963.jpg | ||||
| Duke of Beaufort Bridge | II | Monmouth Troy | Built in 1874. It is listed (as a historic structure) simply as the Railway Bridge, Monmouth. It carried the Ross and Monmouth Railway line. Still in use as a footpath. | File:Duke of Beaufort Bridge.jpg | |||
| Monmouth Viaduct | 51°48’16"N, 2°42’28"W | - | Monmouth Troy | Bridge dismantled in 1967. It carried the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk & Pontypool Railway line. Part of the currently closed Wye Valley Railway line. | File:Viaduct, River Wye, near Monmouth - geograph.org.uk - 1179644.jpg | ||
| Penallt Viaduct | II | Also known as, and listed as Redbrook Railway Bridge. Previously carried the Wye Valley Railway. Still in use as a footpath. | File:The old railway bridge, Redbrook - geograph.org.uk - 604235.jpg | ||||
| Bigsweir Bridge | II* | Carries the A466 road. | File:Bigsweir Bridge.jpg | ||||
| Brockweir Bridge | II | Designed by S.W. & A.L. Yockney of Victoria Street, Westminster. The contractors were E. Finch and Company of Chepstow. | File:Brockweir quay and bridge.jpg | ||||
| Tintern Railway Bridge | Tintern station | Demolished on the currently closed Wye Valley Railway south of Tintern railway station. | File:Tintern Dismantled Railway Bridge - Southern Abutment - geograph.org.uk - 204771.jpg | ||||
| Old Tramway Bridge | II | Listed as the Old Tramway Bridge (formerly Wireworks Bridge), but also known as the Tintern Footbridge. Previously carried the Tintern Wireworks Branch, now a footbridge. | File:Tintern Old Tramway Bridge.jpg | ||||
| Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow | 52°29’19"N, 3°43’36"W | I | Chepstow | Carries the B4228 road. | File:Bridge over Wye - geograph.org.uk - 682946.jpg | ||
| A48 bridge | 52°29’13"N, 3°43’20"W | - | Chepstow | Carries the A48 road. | File:A48 bridge on River Wye at Chepstow.jpg | ||
| Chepstow Railway Bridge | 52°28’53"N, 3°42’58"W | II | Chepstow | Built in 1852 as part of the South Wales Railway. It also brought the currently closed Wye Valley Railway into Chepstow station. It now carries the Gloucester to Newport Line. | File:River Wye Railway bridge at Chepstow.jpg | ||
| M48 Wye Bridge | 52°28’22"N, 3°42’5"W | II | Tidenham and Chepstow | Built in 1966, it carries the M4 motorway between Monmouthshire and Gloucestershire. | File:River Wye estuary and M48 Wye road bridge.jpg | ||
| Severn-Wye Cable Tunnel | 51°36’40"N, 2°40’9"W | - | Beachley – Aust | The tunnel is 156 feet deep, with a diameter of 10 feet and a total length of 2.3 miles.[2] The tunnel carries two 400 kV circuits, each with three cables. The tunnel is owned by npower. | File:Pylons - geograph.org.uk - 190588.jpg | ||
| Aust Severn Powerline Crossing | 51°36’21"N, 2°38’29"W | - | Longest powerline span in the UK at 1 mile | File:Aust Ferry First Severn Road Bridge under construction geograph-2211848-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg |
See also
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Bridges across the River Wye) |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Crow, Alan (1995). Bridges on the River Wye. Hereford: Lapridge Publications. ISBN 0-9518589-9-8.
- ↑ "Mono Severn Wye Tunnel Project wins award.". HighBeam. http://business.highbeam.com/411917/article-1G1-135814115/mono-severn-wye-tunnel-project-wins-award. Retrieved 10 May 2011.