Pont Rhyd-Y-Meirch is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 July 1992. Bridge.
Pont Rhyd-Y-Meirch
- WRENN ID
- deep-chapel-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 July 1992
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Pont Rhyd-Y-Meirch, Bro Machno, Conwy
- OS grid reference
- SH 762 477
- Coordinates
- 53.0128, -3.84625
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pont Rhyd-Y-Meirch is a single-arched bridge made of rubble masonry. The arch's voussoirs are set slightly back beneath a shallow hood. The span of the bridge is positioned slightly back from the abutments. It features a parapet topped with vertical slate rubble capping stones. The width of the carriageway is approximately 3 meters, and the parapet height is about 1 meter.
Local climate
Pont Rhyd-Y-Meirch sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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