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Trimsaran Road, KIDWELLY, SA17 4ED

This OS cut mark can be found on the NE parapet of the railway bridge. It marks a point 9.525m above mean sea level.

The railway line that this road crosses was almost completely obscured by trees that looked like they'd been growing for at least 10 years - the tracks, although there, were completely obscured.

This track is actually the old road which became redundant when the B4309 was diverted to run parallel to it.

Pont Spwdwr, Spudder's Bridge, was probably built in the second half of the sixteenth century. The wing walls were added by Thomas Kymer in 1770. It is a single-carriageway rubble-stone bridge of four main spans, steeply ramped to the centre. The piers and abutments have V-shaped cutwaters rising to the parapet to form refuges. Each span has a pointed arch, of which the two central spans are wider and higher. The two southernmost arches span the river, the remaining two are built over floodplain. Further north ( - shown here) are two additional low and narrow pointed arches built over the floodplain on the approach to the bridge. The plain parapet continues on the north side, where it forms a field boundary and terminates in a field gate. [Coflein].

View of the B4308 just before a bend, though not as sharp as the bi-lingual sign would have you believe.

This late medieval bridge crosses the Gwendraeth Fawr.

Bridge of late medieval construction - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1154693

This OS cut mark can be found on the NE parapet of Pont Spwdwr. It marks a point 8.0193m above mean sea level.

This is Pont Spwdwr, 'Spudder's Bridge', possibly even the bridge of 'Rees Powdwr' in early accounts. It crosses the river Gwendraeth Fawr between Kidwelly and Trimsaran in Carmarthenshire. The old bridge shown in the foreground dates back to the at least the 15th century; I'm not sure if the exact date of construction is known. The new bridge behind carries the B4308 road and dates from the 20th century. Taken with a Zenit 'E'; scanned from a Kodachrome 64 transparency.

Adeiladwyd Pont Spwdwr, sy'n rhychwantu Afon Gwendraeth Fawr, yn ystod ail hanner yr 16g ac mae hi bellach yn hygyrch i gerddwyr a beicwyr yw'r unig. Arferai'r anhedd-dy yn y pellter fod yn dafarn o'r enw Spudder Bridge. Pont Spwdwr, which spans Afon Gwendraeth Fawr, was built in the second half of the sixteenth century and is only accessible today to walkers and cyclists. The property in the distance is a former public house known as Spudder Bridge.