Suspension bridge at Abercamlais is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 January 1963. Bridge.

Suspension bridge at Abercamlais

WRENN ID
floating-cupola-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
17 January 1963
Type
Bridge
Address
Suspension bridge at Abercamlais, Trallong, Powys
OS grid reference
SN 966 290
Coordinates
51.95033, -3.50561
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The suspension bridge at Abercamlais is a Grade II listed structure made of iron. It features iron rods with a thin flat iron strip for the decking. On each side of the bridge, there are two long iron rods bolted to cast-iron posts at either end. Thick wire hangers are wound around both rods and extend downwards to support flat pieces of iron beneath the decking, which consists of four parallel strips of iron.

The cast-iron posts are slender and splayed away from each other, connected at the top by a hooped piece of iron rod. Each post has four holes: two for the main rods and two for diagonal outer rods that run parallel into the ground, with the upper ends bolted just below each of the main rods. An iron gate is located at the southern end of the bridge.

Local climate

Suspension bridge at Abercamlais sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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