Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
84011
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/02/2005
Date of Amendment
25/02/2005
Name of Property
Milestone at Pont Maentwrog
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Maentwrog
Town
Locality
Maentwrog
Easting
266503
Northing
340735
Street Side
Location
Set in the walling branching to SE off Pont Maentwrog. (A496)
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Probably late C18 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.
Exterior
Stone slab milestone, roughly rectangular in shape and now painted, that bears the inscription:
(20miles = 32 Km)
MILES / LONDON / 220 / DOLGELLEY / 18 / CAERNARVON / 23 / BALA / 22 / CERNIOGE / 20 / BEDDGELERT / 10 / HARLECH / 10 / BARMOUTH / 20.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a well preserved late C18 milestone that forms a group with the adjacent road bridge and tollgate cottage at the N end of the village of Maentwrog.
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