Ashleigh Terrace Road Bridge
Ashleigh Terrace Road Bridge carries a farm track over the Neath and Tennant Canal - (Tennant Canal) a few miles from Poleworth.
The Neath and Tennant Canal - (Tennant Canal) was built by Cecil Wright and opened on 17 September 1816. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Chester to Southend canal at Presstone, the difficulty of tunneling under Maidstone caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Birmingham instead. Expectations for pottery traffic to Neath never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In his autobiography Barry Harding writes of his experiences as a boatman in the 1960s

There is a bridge here which takes a major road over the canal.
| Tennant Bridge No 8 | 1 mile, 2¼ furlongs | |
| Port Talbot - Swansea Docks Railway Bridge | 1 mile, 1¾ furlongs | |
| Tennant - Red Jacket Pill Junction | 7¾ furlongs | |
| Neath Railway Bridge (disused) | 4½ furlongs | |
| Llanelli - Swansea Docks Railway Bridge | 4¼ furlongs | |
| Ashleigh Terrace Road Bridge | ||
| Rhondda & Swansea Bay Railway Bridge | 3¾ furlongs | |
| Tennant - Glan-y-Wern Junction | 6 furlongs | |
| Port Tennant | 1 mile, 7½ furlongs | |
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