Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
2085
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/11/1953
Date of Amendment
19/03/2001
Name of Property
Travellers' Seat
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Skenfrith
Town
Monmouth
Locality
Newcastle
Easting
342560
Northing
218362
Street Side
Location
On the inner (NE) side of a bend in a minor road approximately 1km WNW of Newcastle.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Perhaps erected by a Turnpike Trust; dated 1780.
Exterior
A guidestone for travellers, dated 1780. Set in an upstand of a low rubble boundary wall at the roadside, it is a flat-faced slab approximately 1m high and 1¼m wide, with inscriptions which are now only partly legible. The second line reads "ERECTED 1780", and the following lines refer to Crickhowell, Brecon, Ross, Gloucester and Brecknock, with their distance in "Miles from hence".
Interior
Reason for designation
A historically interesting form of milestone.
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