Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mile marker
Newcastle Higher, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 13 November 1997
- Locality
- Tondu
- Community
- Newcastle Higher
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.54566, -3.59791
- Cadw reference
- 19053
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
Located on Maesteg Road, immediately outside Tondu Methodist Church.
Exterior
Mid C19 cast iron mile marker of triangular shape with sloping top. Painted white with black lettering in relief:
RAILWAY
STATION
3 1/4
MAESTEG BRIDGEND
6 3
MILES MILES
Reason for designation
A well detailed of a Victorian mile marker associated with the South Wales Railway.
Nearby in the register
- Bridge over Incline Plane TonduTransportunder 1 mi
- Bridge over Incline Plane TonduTransportunder 1 mi
- Former Blast Engine Houses at Tondu IronworksIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Remains of Tondu IronworksIronworksunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.