Penson’s single carriageway Llangadfan bridge carries a minor road over the River Banwy, near Cann Office, just outside the village centre. It is a fairly unremarkable single-span elliptical arch which, in1846/7, replaced a timber bridge washed away in1844. Penson’s original contract notice, published in May 1844, called for tenders for the construction of ‘a timber bridge upon two stone abutments and a stone pier’ (Eddowes’s Journal, and General Advertiser for Shropshire, and the Principality of Wales 1st May 1844). He subsequently changed his mind. 

Text: David Ward