Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milestone on B4570 SE of Capel Tygwydd
Beulah, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 15 March 1996
- Locality
- Capel Tygwydd
- Community
- Beulah
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.06211, -4.51903
- Cadw reference
- 16822
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 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
S side of B4570, some 350 m SE Capel Tygwydd
History
Later C18 or early C19 milestone on one of the two turnpike roads from Newcastle Emlyn to Cardigan.
Exterior
Situated on S side of B4570, some 350m SE of Capel Tygwydd.
Freestanding white-painted stone milestone,
approximately 1.05m high by 0.4m wide by 0.25m deep inscribed
TO
CARDIGAN
7 MILES
Bench mark below.
Reason for designation
Included as a relic of transport history in the area.
Nearby in the register
- TroedyrhiwDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milestone on B4570 NW of Cwm CouTransportunder 1 mi
- Milestone on B4750 S of PonthirwaunTransportunder 1 mi
- Troed y Rhiw Sion Defended EnclosurePromontory Fort - inland1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.