A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
DEVIL'S-BRIDGE, or Pont-y-Mynach, a place on the river Mynach, near its confluence with the Rheidol, 12 miles E by S of Aberystwith, in Cardigan. It has a post office under Aberystwith, and an inn; and takes its name from a wondrous bridge across a romantic chasm, traversed by the river. The bridge is double, lower and upper; the lower one built in the 11th or 12th century, and now a mere curve of rude masonry; the upper one built in 1753, with a span of 30 feet, at a height of 114 feet above the stream. The chasm is upwards of a mile long; and the Mynach while traversing it, in the part above the bridge, makes four falls respectively 18, 60, 20, and 110 feet deep. A famous fall of the Rheidol also is near.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a place" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Cardiganshire AncC |
| Place names: | DEVILS BRIDGE | DEVILS BRIDGE OR PONT Y MYNACH | PONT Y MYNACH |
| Place: | Devils Bridge |
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