Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milestone at Plas Teg
Hope, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 6 May 1998
- Locality
- Plas Teg
- Community
- Hope
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13218, -3.06826
- Cadw reference
- 19763
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 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
On a central reservation on the main road, immediately opposite the N entrance drive to Plas Teg, towards the northern boundary of the community.
Exterior
Late C18 or early C19 milestone, serving the old course of the Wrexham-Mold road (before widening in the late 1960s). Of local grey freestone construction, semi-circular in plan and approximately .50m high. Inscribed on its curved face are the distances: ' Wrexham 6m Mold 4m'.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special historic interest as a late C18/early C19 milestone.
Nearby in the register
- Ice-house NE of Plas TegDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bridge over River Alyn at HartsheathTransportunder 1 mi
- Hartsheath HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bridge carrying main drive over Servants' Pathway including gate piers at HartsheathDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.