Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
82537
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/02/2004
Date of Amendment
27/02/2004
Name of Property
Milepost at Bronaber
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Trawsfynydd
Town
Locality
Bronaber
Easting
271236
Northing
331637
Street Side
E
Location
Set alongside the E side of the A470 just S of the junction in the village of Bronaber.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Probably mid C19 milepost. Merioneth was the last of the Welsh counties to have turnpike roads and it was at a county meeting in Dolgellau in 1775 that it was resolved to convert the principal tracks of the county into turnpikes, in partnership with Caernarfonshire. By the end of the C18 most of the existing roads had been brought under the Trust under the Merioneth Turnpike Act of 1777 and the line of the modern road from Maentwrog to Dolgellau more or less follows the line of the early turnpike and was certainly in place by the time of the Tithe Map of the parish, 1849.
Exterior
Cast iron milepost with a triangular profile, wider at the top with a raking head and facing panels which bear the names and distances: DOLGELLEY / 10 on the left (N) hand face and TRAWSFYNYDD / 2 on the right.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved C19 milepost, one of a series along the A470.
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