Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milestone 1 mile NE of Llowes
Glasbury, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llowes, Glasbury, Powys, designated on 18 January 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 18 January 1996
- Locality
- Llowes
- Community
- Glasbury
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.07163, -3.16796
- Cadw reference
- 17215
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 197 Hay (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located in the road verge, 115m approximately E of a trackway climbing the cutting, and on the community council border and opposite a lay-by.
Exterior
c.1830. A round topped fine sandstone pillar with tooled edge, later painted, bearing incised lettering in sans-serif capitals reading, around top H[ere]FORD, and below, 22/ MILES - GLASBURY / 3 . Damaged at the top.
Reason for designation
Included as a relic of the turnpike organisation of the main road in the early C19.
Nearby in the register
- Llowes CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St MeiligReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cross Slab in Llowes ChurchCross-marked stoneunder 1 mi
- Old VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.