Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milepost in Tavernspite village
Lampeter Velfrey, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 15 October 1997
- Locality
- Tavernspite
- Community
- Lampeter Velfrey
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.78288, -4.63721
- Cadw reference
- 18987
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
E of village of Tavernspite, N side of road
History
A milepost on one of the roads which were shown on the map in the 1844 Inquiry Report as managed by the Tavernspite Turnpike Trust. The Trust appears to be of C18 origin. It was controlled under an act of 1808. Following the Rebecca riots all Pembrokeshire turnpike roads were taken over in 1845 by the County Roads Board. It was probably after this consolidation that the foundry of Joseph Marychurch, Haverfordwest, cast the plates for the mileposts.
Exterior
Milepost consisting of two cast-iron plates each with its top pointed. The plates are butted together at 90 degrees, fixed to a solid backing but not fixed to each other.
The W-facing plate reads '16 miles 1301 yards to Carmarthen'. The E-facing plate reads '4 miles 1219 yards to Narberth'. Both plates have the wording 'Marychurch Foundry' in smaller lettering at the foot. This milepost is the first on the Tavernspite turnpike, close to the position where the turnpike gate stood.
Reason for designation
Listed as a C19 cast-iron milepost of distinctive local type, the first on the Tavernspite Turnpike.
Nearby in the register
- Cyffic and Lampeter Velfrey Parish Boundary StoneCivilunder 1 mi
- Crug Swllt Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Milepost near Lower LlantydwellTransportunder 1 mi
- Carvan Congregational ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.