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Glyncorrwg Railway. Penlan-Fach Bridge;Parsons Folly

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NPRN309298
Map ReferenceSS79NE
Grid ReferenceSS7801098850
Unitary (Local) AuthorityNeath Port Talbot
Old CountyGlamorgan
CommunityTonna
Type Of SiteRAILWAY BRIDGE
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
A single arch bridge, carrying a track over the former railway incline and a stream. At arch springing level, the bridge is 4.80m wide and spans 5.90m. The abutment flanks are of coursed and squared rubble and are stepped. The parapet walls are ruinous. The approach embankment walls are of coursed rubble and on the north side there is an unusual stepped buttress built flush with the wall on the east side of the bridge.
Downhill from the bridge a stone-revetted causeway, approximately 1m high and partly washed away, carried the railway; several stone sleeper blocks are visible.
Site visited B.A.Malaws, 20 February 1992.
(Source: taken from the site notes of B A Malaws)
J Hill 30.10.2003

Associated with:
Glyncorrwg Railway (Nprn34840).