Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milestone
Menai Bridge, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 18 July 1997
- Town
- Menai Bridge
- Community
- Menai Bridge
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22685, -4.16248
- Cadw reference
- 18552
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set in the corner of the wall outside the front of 'Mile End' house, at the far end of Menai Bridge High Street.
History
In 1805 Viscount Thomas James Warren Bulkeley (7th Viscount) made a new road through his land to run along the straits and built a sea-wall 5ft high to protect it. It was opened to the public in 1806. In 1828 it became a turnpike road and the approaches to both Menai Bridge and Beaumaris were improved. The milestone dates from the establishment of the turnpike in 1828, and is one of four originally placed along its route, all of which survive.
Exterior
Dressed granite slab, with shaped (pointed) top, cut with lettering reading: BEAUMARIS / 4 MILES / MENAI BRIDGE / 3 FURLS
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine example of a milestone with considerable local historical significance.
Nearby in the register
- Hawthorn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Trinity HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Menai VilleDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 2 Tan BrynDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.