Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milestone S of Weig Lane
Caersws, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Caersws, Powys, designated on 5 November 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 5 November 1996
- Locality
- Caersws
- Community
- Caersws
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.52490, -3.44776
- Cadw reference
- 17548
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 · 164 Llanidloes (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, approximately 30m S of the junction with Wig Lane at Weig Lane railway crossing.
History
The Newtown to Machynlleth road was managed by the First Division Turnpike Trust, established in 1779, and again in 1783. This section of the turnpike road appears to have been marked out with mile stones after the alteration of the route from Aberhafesp to that through Caersws.
Exterior
A square sandstone pillar with a gabled top, elegantly inscribed on the face, NEWT / 7 / MACH / 21.
Reason for designation
A square sandstone pillar with a gabled top, elegantly inscribed on the face, NEWT / 7 / MACH / 21.
Nearby in the register
- Wig BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-borfa fawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milestone W of villageTransportunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box (01686 688564)Communicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.