Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mile marker at Cilthriew
Kerry, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pentre, Newtown, Kerry, Powys, designated on 12 September 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 12 September 1996
- Locality
- Pentre
- Town
- Newtown
- Community
- Kerry
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.48891, -3.24186
- Cadw reference
- 17309
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 165 Montgomery (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 on the E side of the road from Kerry to Anchor and Clun, and about 100m S of Cilthriew farm buildings.
Exterior
Cast iron mile marker of c.1830, set up by the Turnpike Trust on the newly engineered section of road, still referred to as the 'turnpike', to ease gradients on the climb to Kerry Pole [463m]. Triangular in plan, rising to a sloping top against a half-round backplate, now missing. Raised lettering reading: on left: ANCHOR 4 - M / KNIGHTON 17 - M. On the right: KERRY / 1½ - M / NEWTOWN / 4½ - M, with arrows pointing in the appropriate directions.
Reason for designation
Included as a symbol of the improvements brought about by the turnpike trusts in the early C19.
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilding at CilthriewAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Farm building at Cilthriew FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- CilthriewDomesticunder 1 mi
- Black HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.