Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milestone at Keepers' Cottage
Bronllys, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 15 December 1995
- Locality
- Erwood
- Community
- Bronllys
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.06143, -3.29350
- Cadw reference
- 16640
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the back of the road verge against the driveway to Keeper's Cottage, close to the parish boundary between Llyswen and Llandefalle parishes
Exterior
16640
Description: A late C18 turnpike milestone. A painted sandstone pillar with a rounded top, bearing incised and painted lettering reading:
HAY / 10 / Builth / 9
Included as a monument to the turnpike era of road transport.
Nearby in the register
- Trericket MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- PenygraigDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn range at PenygraigAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Dol-wenDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.