Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milestone outside Cartref
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Aberdaron, Pwllheli, Gwynedd, designated on 26 June 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 26 June 1998
- Locality
- Aberdaron
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Aberdaron
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.80843, -4.71001
- Cadw reference
- 19993
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 133 Bardsey Island (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on W side of B4413 at outer edge of Aberdaron village, some 600m from centre.
History
Milestone, later C19, one of a series of similar milestones on the main roads of the Llyn, presumably indicating a later phase of the turnpike system than the boulder stones on the Uwchmynydd to Rhiw road.
Exterior
Milestone, cut slate slab with top corners cut off inscribed 'Miles, Pwllheli 17, Sarn 6'.
Reason for designation
Included as part of the series of similar stones on the main roads of the region.
Nearby in the register
- BodernabwyDomesticunder 1 mi
- Plas yr WylanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Aberdaron New ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Melin DaronCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.