Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milestone near Brynwicket Farm
Llannon, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 12 January 1999
- Locality
- Brynwicket Farm
- Community
- Llannon
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.76552, -4.13655
- Cadw reference
- 21085
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
Beside road from Llannon to Pontyberem, 50m west of entrance to Brynwicket Farm.
History
The road through Pontyberem to Llannon was part of the Kidwelly Turnpike Trust system re-established in the late C18 under its Renewal Act of 1779.
Exterior
Late C18 milestone of limestone bearing the lettering: "From / Carmarthen / 11 Miles / To Llannon / 1". The stone is about 700mm high by about 400wide, and about 125mm thick. The top is roughly rounded.
Reason for designation
Listed as a late C18 milestone of characteristic local type.
Nearby in the register
- Milestone at Bryn DuTransportunder 1 mi
- Railings and Gates of St Non's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- Gravestone with Railings within St Non's ChurchyardReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- The Old SchoolEducation1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.