Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milestone on B4570 NW of Cwm Cou
Beulah, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 15 March 1996
- Locality
- Cwm Cou
- Community
- Beulah
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.05421, -4.50061
- Cadw reference
- 17950
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 S side of B4570, some 800m NW of Cwm Cou.
History
Late C18 or early C19 milestone, on older of the two turnpike roads into Cardigan from Newcastle Emlyn.
Exterior
Freestanding white-painted stone milestone, approximately 0.9m high by 0.35m wide by 0.25m deep inscribed
TO
CARDIGAN
8 MILES
Benchmark below inscription.
Reason for designation
Included as a relic of transport history in the area.
Nearby in the register
- TroedyrhiwDomesticunder 1 mi
- Troed y Rhiw Sion Defended EnclosurePromontory Fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Trewen Mill / Felin DrewenIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Capel y Drewen including Vestry RailingsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.