Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Travellers' Seat
Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Newcastle, Monmouth, Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, designated on 19 November 1953.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 19 November 1953
- Locality
- Newcastle
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Skenfrith
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.86087, -2.83551
- Cadw reference
- 2085
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 233 Monmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the inner (NE) side of a bend in a minor road approximately 1km WNW of Newcastle.
History
Perhaps erected by a Turnpike Trust; dated 1780.
Exterior
A guidestone for travellers, dated 1780. Set in an upstand of a low rubble boundary wall at the roadside, it is a flat-faced slab approximately 1m high and 1¼m wide, with inscriptions which are now only partly legible. The second line reads "ERECTED 1780", and the following lines refer to Crickhowell, Brecon, Ross, Gloucester and Brecknock, with their distance in "Miles from hence".
Reason for designation
A historically interesting form of milestone.
Nearby in the register
- Grange Farmhouse including attached Brewhouse/Dairy and Lower Cowhouse (aka The Grange)No class recorded1 mi
- Stable & Barn Range at Grange FarmNo class recorded1 mi
- Lade Farm barn, approximately 50m SW of houseAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
- Lade FarmhouseDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.