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Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
82538
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/02/2004
Date of Amendment
27/02/2004
Name of Property
Milepost by Fron-oleu
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Trawsfynydd
Town
Locality
Trawsfynydd
Easting
271085
Northing
334921
Street Side
E
Location
Set alongside the E side of the A470 S of Fron-oleu; to S of the village of Trawsfynydd
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 and the line of the modern road from Maentwrog to Dolgellau more or less follows the line of the early turnpike and was certainly in place by the time of the Tithe Map of the parish, 1849.
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: DOLGELLEY / 12 on the left hand face and TRAWSFYNYDD on the right.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved C19 milepost, one of a series along the A470.
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