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Flush Bracket 2700: Little Ffordd-fawr   

Flush Bracket on N.W. parapet of bridge, over Digedi Brook, Little Ffordd-fawr [2GL]; bridge parapet, NW side of road, 2.7m NE of Digedi Brook, SE face.

Location
Grid reference: SO 2021 4061.
Landranger 148: Presteigne & Hay-on-Wye, Llanandras a'r Gelli Gandryll.
Landranger 161: Abergavenny & The Black Mountains.
Structure: Bridge.
Waypoint: FB2700.

Neighbouring Flush Brackets
2699 Hay, Victoria Cottage 2.05km to the northeast.
2701 Glasbury, by Post Office 2.57km to the southwest.
11631 Glasbury Bridge 2.61km to the southwest.
2698 Hay, Crown Hotel 3.27km to the northeast.
2702 Aberllynfi, Three Cocks Inn 3.93km to the southwest.
The nearest fundamental bench mark is Brecon, 19.00km to the southwest.

Second Geodetic Levelling, England & Wales (1912-21)
This flush bracket was used during the Second geodetic levelling, England & Wales, and was levelled with a height of 290.3340 feet [88.4938 metres] above mean sea level (Newlyn datum). It was included on the Church Stretton to Brecon levelling line. The surveyor's description was Flush Bracket on N.W. parapet of bridge, over Digedi Brook, Little Ffordd-fawr.

Logged Visits
Logged on 20th February 2007 by iainmac. Condition: Couldn't find it.
May still be there under ivy

Logged on 17th July 2005 by RHW. Condition: Couldn't find it.
Part of what looks like wing wall of old bridge still survives, FB could be buried, or covered in ivy.

Logged on 11th February 2005 by the_cheshire_cat. Condition: Couldn't find it.
Old bridge does not have parapets, but battlements at each end heavily covered in ivy, so FB could be there.
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