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
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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