Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
84010
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/02/2005
Date of Amendment
25/02/2005
Name of Property
Milepost
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Maentwrog
Town
Locality
Maentwrog
Easting
265751
Northing
339903
Street Side
NE
Location
Set along the NE side of the A496 between Pont Felinrhyd-fawr and Maentwrog; c.300m NE of Pont Felinrhyd-fawr.
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. The stretch of road that this series of mileposts serves was constructed following the reclaimation of Traeth Mawr, and the erection of the Cob at Porthmadog, opened in 1808.
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: BLAENAU FFESTINIOG / 3 on the left hand face and HARLECH / 9 on the right.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a C19 milepost, one of a series along the road between Maentwrog and Dolgellau.
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