Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mile Post
Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, designated on 1 February 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 1 February 1996
- Locality
- Blaenau Ffestiniog
- Community
- Ffestiniog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.98947, -3.92794
- Cadw reference
- 16856
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the road side, immediately before the road curves around to the SW at Bethania.
Exterior
A second-half C19 cast iron milepost with triangular profile; the S face has, in raised lettering: Blaenau Ffestiniog , the N, Harlech 14. No visible foundry marks.
Listed for its historic interest as a surviving C19 milepost in a prominent road-side location.
Nearby in the register
- 2 Uwchllaw'rffynnon TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Uwchllaw'rffynnon TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Uwchllaw'rffynnon TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Uwchllaw'rffynnon TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.