Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milestone on A487
Dyffryn Arth, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 23 May 1996
- Locality
- Morfa
- Community
- Dyffryn Arth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.26155, -4.20664
- Cadw reference
- 17499
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
Situated on N side of road some 1.8 km NW of Aberarth, and about 1 km ESE of Morfa Mawr.
Exterior
History: Early C19 milestone on Aberaeron to Aberystwyth turnpike road. Turnpike trust formed 1770.
Description: Whitewashed stone curved-headed milestone inscribed: `ABERYSTWYTH 13 miles' the letters of Aberystwyth following curve of head.
Included for its special interest as a relic of early transport history.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.