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Coordinates
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Heritage
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Locality
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Notes
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| Source of the River Wye
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Plynlimon
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Included for completeness
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| Y Drum Bridge
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grid reference SN 854 828
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1965
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Pont Rhydgaled
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The first bridge over the Wye, 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) below its source. A steel beam structure with a wooden deck, 10 metres (33 ft) long with two cylindrical columns mid-span.
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| Pont Cefn-Brwyn
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grid reference SN 830 836
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about 1910
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Pont Rhygaled
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Built to serve the lead mines in Nant Iago. The bridge was strengthened in 1975 to allow road vehicles from the Institute of Hydrology to reach a weir upstream of the bridge.
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| Pont Rhydgaled
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1800
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Pont Rhydgaled
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Carries the A44 over river just above its confluence with the Afon Tarenig.
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| Nanty
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grid reference SN 854 820
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1992
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A three-span wooden footbridge built to replace an earlier structure. The Nanty Lead Mine was located here, but closed in 1867.
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| Footbridge
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1992
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The Wye Valley Walk footbridge
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| Waun Capel Parc footbridge
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grid reference SN 968 681
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1965
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Rhayader
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A single-span made of three continuous truss girders of welded steel, built by the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers.
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| Rhayader road bridge
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Carries the B4518 road.
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| Glyn Bridge
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| Llanwrthwl Bridge
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| Yr Allt Farm bridge
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Farm access
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| Newbridge-on-Wye Bridge
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| Brynwern Bridge
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| Builth Road Railway Bridge
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Near Builth Road railway station.
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Located on the Heart of Wales Line.
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| Wye Bridge, Builth Wells
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II
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Builth Wells
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| Erwood Bridge
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Erwood
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Carries the B4594 road.
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| Lady Milford's Bridge
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Llanstephan
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| Boughrood Bridge
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II
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| Glasbury Bridge
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| Hay Bridge
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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.
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| Whitney-on-Wye Railway Bridge
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Demolished on the former Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway which is closed.
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| Whitney-on-Wye toll bridge
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II
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| Bredwardine Bridge
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II
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| Bridge Sollers Bridge
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| Hunderton Bridge
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Hereford
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On the former Goods Line, part of the original Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
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| Greyfriars bridge (A49 road)
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1967
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| Wye Bridge, Hereford
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Late C15, widened 1826.
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| Victoria Bridge
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II
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Footbridge over River Wye. c1897. Built by Findlay of Motherwell. Concrete piers.
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| Greenway Bridge
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Rotherwas, Hereford
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Bridge links the Bartonsham and Rotherwas areas of Hereford.
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| Eign Bridge
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Rotherwas, Hereford
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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.
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| Holme Lacy Bridge
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| Ballingham Railway Bridge
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grid reference SO 569 306
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1855-1859
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Ballingham
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Carried the closed Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway over the river, the bridge decking is demolished.
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| Hoarwithy Bridge
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| Sellack Suspension Bridge
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II
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| Foy Bridge
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| Strangford Railway Bridge
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Closed Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway line. Decking spanning the river demolished.
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| Backney Railway Bridge
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Closed Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway line.
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| Bridstow Bridge
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Bridstow bridge, completed in 1960, carries the A40 trunk road over the river Wye near Ross-on-Wye.
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| Wilton Bridge
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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.
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| Kerne Bridge
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II
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Road bridge. 1828 by B D Jones. Ashlar. Five-span bridge with large central arch flanked by graded arches.
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| Welsh Bicknor Railway Bridge
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On the closed Ross and Monmouth Railway.
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| Huntsham Bridge
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II
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| Hand ferry at the Ye Old Ferrie Inn
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Symonds Yat
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| Hand ferry at the Saracens Head Inn
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Symonds Yat
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| Biblins Bridge
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Site of Biblins Youth Campsite
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| Wye Bridge (Monmouth)
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II
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Built in 1617
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| Duke of Beaufort Bridge
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II
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Monmouth Troy
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Built in 1874. It is listed (as a historic structure) simply as the Railway Bridge, Monmouth.
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| Monmouth Viaduct
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51°48′16″N 2°42′28″W / 51.804475°N 2.707872°W / 51.804475; -2.707872
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Monmouth Troy
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Bridge dismantled in 1967. It carried the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk & Pontypool Railway line. Part of the closed Wye Valley Railway line.
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| Penallt Viaduct
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II
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Also known as, and listed as Redbrook Railway Bridge. Previously carried the Wye Valley Railway. Still in use as a footpath.
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| Bigsweir Bridge
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II*
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Carries the A466 road.
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| Brockweir Bridge
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51°42′25″N 2°40′08″W / 51.707029°N 2.668972°W / 51.707029; -2.668972 (Brockweir Bridge)
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1906
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II
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Brockweir
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Designed by S.W. & A.L. Yockney of Victoria Street, Westminster. The contractors were E. Finch and Company of Chepstow.
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| Tintern Railway Bridge
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51°42′01″N 2°40′24″W / 51.700334°N 2.673260°W / 51.700334; -2.673260 (Tintern Railway Bridge)
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Tintern station
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Demolished. On the closed Wye Valley Railway south of Tintern railway station.
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| Old Tramway Bridge
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51°41′58″N 2°40′53″W / 51.699424°N 2.681343°W / 51.699424; -2.681343 (Old Tramway Bridge)
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1875
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II
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Tintern
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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.
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| Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow
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52°29′19″N 3°43′36″W / 52.48855°N 3.72676°W / 52.48855; -3.72676 (Wye Bridge)
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Chepstow
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Carries the B4228 road.
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| A48 bridge
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52°29′13″N 3°43′20″W / 52.48681°N 3.72227°W / 52.48681; -3.72227 (A48 bridge at Chepstow)
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Chepstow
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Carries the A48 road.
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| Chepstow Railway Bridge
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52°28′53″N 3°42′58″W / 52.48151°N 3.71618°W / 52.48151; -3.71618 (Chepstow Railway Bridge)
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II
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Chepstow
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Built in 1852 as part of the South Wales Railway. It also brought the closed Wye Valley Railway into Chepstow station. It now carries the Gloucester to Newport Line.
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| M48 Wye Bridge
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52°28′22″N 3°42′05″W / 52.47276°N 3.70141°W / 52.47276; -3.70141 (M48 Wye Bridge)
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II
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Tidenham and Chepstow
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Built in 1966, it carried the M4 motorway between England and Wales until the opening of the Second Severn Crossing in 1996. It now carries the M48 motorway.
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| Severn-Wye Cable Tunnel
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51°36′40″N 2°40′09″W / 51.61098°N 2.66921°W / 51.61098; -2.66921 (Severn-Wye Cable Tunnel)
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Newhouse (Mathern) – Aust
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The tunnel is 47.5 m deep, with a diameter of 3.05 m and a total length of 3,678 m. The tunnel carries two 400 kV circuits, each with three cables.
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| Aust Severn Powerline Crossing
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51°36′21″N 2°38′29″W / 51.60578°N 2.64136°W / 51.60578; -2.64136 (Aust Severn Powerline Crossing)
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Longest powerline span in the UK at 1 mile (1,618 metres).
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