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Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
23194
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/04/2000
Date of Amendment
10/04/2000
Name of Property
Mile Marker
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanfihangel-y-Pennant
Town
Locality
Abergynolwyn
Easting
269149
Northing
307873
Street Side
SE
Location
The mile marker is set in the verge of the road on the NE approach to Pont Iago.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
The Merionethshire Turnpike Trust was first established in 1777, and had 5 districts, this route being in the Dolgellau & Mawddach area, which was absorbed into the larger Dolgelley Mawddwy and Towyn district in 1851, and was finally dissolved after 1875. The mile marker post was probably erected by the turnpike trust in c1827 when the route from Dolgellau to Towyn was remade .
Exterior
Made of cast iron, of triangular section rising from a moulded plinth to an enlarged top sloping back to an edge roll moulding. Raised cast lettering reading, on the left TOWYN / 8; on the right, DOLGELLEY / 12.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a good and well preserved example of the C19 cast iron mile markers of the type frequently used in the earlier decades of the C19; and one of the most complete series of such posts to survive.
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