Abertaf Feeder Pipe Bridge Memorial
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OS Ref: ST 092 954
Last Visited: 2014

The Abertaf Feeder Pipe Bridge Memorial

The Abertaf Feeder Pipe Bridge Memorial
Pipe bridges are generally amongst of the dullest structures to be seen along our rivers and canals.
The Abertaf Feeder Pipe Footbridge near Abercynon is something of an exception, and even warrants its own rather handsome memorial.
The memorial, in the shape of the prow of a canal boat, commemorates the restoration and reopening of the bridge in 1997.
The bridge was originally built in 1857 to supply the Glamorganshire Canal with water. It carried a feeder from a weir at Fiddlerʼs Elbow (about 200m north of here, where the current A472 bridge now stands) across the river.
From there the feeder ran roughly parallel to the Pen-y-darren Tramway (now the Taff Trail) down to join the canal at Navigation (now known as Abercynon).
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