Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
84009
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/02/2005
Date of Amendment
25/02/2005
Name of Property
Milepost
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Maentwrog
Town
Locality
Gellilydan
Easting
269367
Northing
339357
Street Side
E
Location
Set along the E side of the A487(T) at the junction with the country road that leads eastwards to Tomen y Mur.
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 early turnpike and was certainly in place by the time of the Tithe Map of the parish of Trawsfynydd, 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: TRAWSFYNYDD / 3 on the left hand face and MAENTWROG / 2 on the right.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a C19 milepost, one of a series along the road between Maentwrog and Dolgellau.
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