Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
83458
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/12/2004
Date of Amendment
30/12/2004
Name of Property
Milepost to N of Talsarnau
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Talsarnau
Town
Locality
Talsarnau
Easting
261893
Northing
336636
Street Side
NW
Location
Set alongside the NW side of the A496 leading N out of the village of Talsarnau, opposite the entrance to Tregwylan Hotel.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Probably mid C19 milepost. Merionydd 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 Merionydd Turnpike Act of 1777. The stretch of road that this series of mileposts serves was constructed following the reclamation of Traeth Mawr, and the erection of the Cob at Porthmadog, opened in 1808.
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: BLAENAU / FFESTINIOG / 9 on the left hand face and HARLECH / 5 on the right.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a C19 milepost, one of a series along the road between Maentwrog and Harlech.
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