Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Slate Direction Indicators
Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhyd-Ddu, Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, designated on 29 January 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1999
- Locality
- Rhyd-Ddu
- Community
- Betws Garmon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.05510, -4.13572
- Cadw reference
- 21277
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 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set into a boundary wall at the beginning of the B 4418 near the junction with the A 4085 at Rhyd-Ddu.
History
Difficult to date exactly but probably mid- to late C19; the route indicated to Llanfihangel and Dolbenmaen via Cwm Pennant is no longer accessible to vehicular traffic from Rhyd-Ddu.
Exterior
Slate direction indicators. Slate-stone narrow rectangular plaques, upper with an incised rim, set one above the other under a slate drip in stone boundary wall reading "PENYGROES7" and "{LLANFIHANGEL 7 1/2M/ DOLBENMAEN 8 1/2M", both having incised hands with fingers pointing to the left.
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual example of slate direction indicators.
Nearby in the register
- MilestoneTransportunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-GonglDomesticunder 1 mi
- Fridd-isafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn to South of Fridd-isafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.