Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milepost at junction of A477 with A4075
Carew, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 6 February 1997
- Locality
- Carew Village
- Town
- Tenby
- Community
- Carew
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.69263, -4.82892
- Cadw reference
- 18218
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Immediately west of the junction of the A477 with the A4075, on the S side of Carew Village.
History
Milepost erected under the Tavernspite Turnpike Trust, before 1844.
Exterior
Pair of flat casting recording the distances to Haverfordweat and Pembroke, and marked Marychurch Foundry, mounted on an angled stone or concrete block.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved example of a distinctive local type of mile-post.
Nearby in the register
- Old School and Schoolteacher's HouseEducationunder 1 mi
- Old AlmshousesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Old Mortuary ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St. Mary's Churchyard WallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.