Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milepost near Carew Cricket Ground
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
- 51.69589, -4.82804
- Cadw reference
- 18219
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
On the east side of the A4075, 250m approx S os Carew Village.
History
Milepost erected under the Tavernspite Turnpike Trust, before 1844.
Exterior
Pair of flat castings recording the distances to Haverfordwest 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
- The Carew CrossReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Carew CrossCrossunder 1 mi
- No 1 & 2Domesticunder 1 mi
- Carew InnCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.