Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milepost outside No.240
Canton, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1976
- Locality
- Canton
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Canton
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48212, -3.20646
- Cadw reference
- 14078
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
The milepost is situated just to the west of the junction with Pen-y-peel Road.
History
Dated 1835. One of a series of mileposts on the A48 to the west of Cardiff, one of which, for Tythegston Parish, is an exhibit in the Museum of Welsh Life in St. Fagans Community (qv).
Exterior
Ornately moulded cast-iron mile-post in Gothic style. Rectangular panels at the base, the lower one with date '1835' and the upper one with the words 'LANDAFF PARISH'. Behind and above this, a tall crowning tablet with curved head, inscribed 'CARDIFF DISTRICT'. Two pointed headed panels protrude from the lower part of this tablet, the left hand one inscribed 'TO CARDIFF 1', and the right hand one inscribed 'TO COWBRIDGE 11'. A segmental panel inscribed 'LONDON 159' below these and above rectangular panels at base.
Reason for designation
Included for its special historic interest as one of a series of 1835 mileposts surviving on the Cardiff-Cowbridge turnpike.
Nearby in the register
- Salem Eglwys Bresbyteraidd CymruReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Canton LibraryEducationunder 1 mi
- 194 Cowbridge Road EastCommercialunder 1 mi
- 192 Cowbridge Road EastCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.