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
87687
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/08/2016
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Milestone
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Marchwiel
Town
Locality
Easting
335483
Northing
347796
Street Side
Location
Next to Providence House on the south side of the A525 (Wrexham Road), to the west of the junction with the A528 Overton Road.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
Victorian
History
Marchwiel sits on the junction of two historic routes from the south-east to Wrexham, from Shrewsbury through Ellesmere and Overton (A528/A539) and from Whitchurch through Bangor-is-y-coed (A525). Two Turnpike Acts were passed in the mid C18 to improve these routes and only a limited number of milestones have been recorded as surviving, two on the Overton-Ellesmere road (both listed), two on the Bangor-Whitchurch road and two on the Overton-Hanmer road.
The first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1879 shows a milestone in the location in Marchwiel with distances to Ellesmere/Overton/Wrexham, and another milestone nearer Wrexham at Kings Mills. A milestone is shown on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map of 1899 with distances to Wrexham/Ellesmere, the same as the distances shown on the milestone plaque suggesting that the stone is earlier, possibly original to the passing of the Turnpike Act with the plaque added in the 1890’s.
Exterior
Milestone, rounded stone with attached cast iron plaque, with a rounded and shouldered head and painted white with raised lettering ‘TO, M, WREXHAM 2, ELLESMERE 10’. Largely hidden by raised ground levels but revealed at the time of inspection.
Interior
NA
Reason for designation
Included for its special historic interest as a well preserved late C19 milestone, possibly incorporating an earlier milestone, and one of the few surviving milestones on the Marchwiel, Whitchurch and Ellesmere turnpike system.
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