Pont Bodfel
Grade II listed building in Gwynedd. The bridge carries the major road N from Pwllheli to Nefyn over the Afon Rhyd-hir, some 900m N of Efailnewydd.
Pont Bodfel is a bridge between the villages of Boduan and Efailnewydd in Wales.
The bridge formerly carried the A497 road over the Afon Rhyd-hir. It has a three-span structure and is Grade II listed.
On 27 January 2019, the bridge partially collapsed. A temporary single-lane bridge was subsequently installed parallel to Pont Bodfel. A new bridge, Pont Bodefail, was constructed parallel to Pont Bodfel to carry road traffic and Pont Bodfel was reopened for use by pedestrians and cyclists.
“Pont Bodfel” enters the record as grade II listed building in Gwynedd. The bridge carries the major road N from Pwllheli to Nefyn over the Afon Rhyd-hir, some 900m N of Efailnewydd. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pont, Bodfel and Grade can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q29484035. Authority coordinates are 52.901, -4.465. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019.
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