Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mile marker opposite The Firs.
Castle Caereinion, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Byrwydd, Castle Caereinion, Powys, designated on 13 June 1997.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 13 June 1997
- Locality
- Byrwydd
- Town
- Castle Caereinion
- Community
- Castle Caereinion
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.64725, -3.26853
- Cadw reference
- 18487
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 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located in the road verge, on the southern road from Llanfair Caereinion to Castle Caereinion.
History
Erected by the turnpike trust on the road from Castle Caereinion to Llanfair Caereinion.
Exterior
A cast iron mile marker of triangular section, the top sloping back to a half-round back plate. Inscribed on the left: CASTLE-C / 1 1/2; on the right: LLANFAIR / 2 1/2; and around the backplate: WELSHPOOL / 5.
Reason for designation
Included as the only surviving and well preserved mile marker on this, the earlier, turnpike from Castle Caereinion to Llanfair Caereinion.
Nearby in the register
- Pen y Coed Hillfort, CyfronyddHillfortunder 1 mi
- Pont Pren-danoTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont Pren-danoTransportunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-llwyn, also known as Penllwyn.Domestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.