Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milestone
Llanfair Caereinion, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhos Fawr, Llanfair Caereinion, Powys, designated on 1 April 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 1 April 1996
- Locality
- Rhos Fawr
- Community
- Llanfair Caereinion
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.64762, -3.29958
- Cadw reference
- 17412
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)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located in the road verge, approximately 100m west of the driveway to Rhôs fawr farm.
Exterior
History: A milestone erected by a Montgomeryshire Turnpike Trust, probably in the later C18, on the road from Llanfair Caereinion to Welshpool.
Description: A sandstone pillar with slightly tapering sides and rounded top (damaged), inscribed with well cut elegant lettering reading:
To / POOL / 6 / Mile / Llnfair / 1.
Included as a good example of an inscribed milestone surviving from the early turnpiking of the road.
Nearby in the register
- Gelli GasonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pont Pren-danoTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont Pren-danoTransportunder 1 mi
- Melin Dol-rhydIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.