Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
17553
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/11/1996
Date of Amendment
05/11/1996
Name of Property
Milestone outside Aelbryn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Caersws
Town
Locality
Llanwnog
Easting
304624
Northing
293172
Street Side
S
Location
The milestone is now located in the narrow road verge, under the garden hedge of 'Aelbryn', approx 1km E of the village centre.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
The road from Newtown to Machynlleth, through Aberhafesp was included in the Second District, defined under the First Montgomeryshire Act of 1769, 'for the Repairing and Widening of ' various specified roads, and to raise tolls by means of turnpike gates. The powers were re-enacted in 1773 and at later times, and these included the power to erect stones at mile intervals. This road was superceded by the construction of the new turnpike on the S sive of the river, called the 'Long Length'.
Exterior
A triangular fronted pillar of compact sandstone, erected c.1790 ch , bearing elegantly incised lettering, in part roughly overpainted in black, reading, on the left face: 5 / NEWT, and on the right 23 / MACH / CHYN / LLETH. The reversal of faces indicates the milestone has been relocated here from the opposite site of the road.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as one of the few milestones surviving from the marking out of the mile points by the Turnpike Trust.
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