Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Turnpike Trust boundary stone in front of 704 Mumbles Road
Mumbles, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 29 October 1999
- Locality
- Southend
- Town
- Swansea
- Community
- Mumbles
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.57181, -3.98939
- Cadw reference
- 22556
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
At the junction of Mumbles Road and Dickslade, and to the rear of the pavement. Set against the wall of the house.
Exterior
A low triangular boundary stone with a chamfered edge into the spine of which 'Boundary' is engraved. The faces are partly legible and read 'Turnpike Road 1836'.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare survival of a Turnpike Trust boundary stone.
Nearby in the register
- 3 Southend VillasDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Southend VillasDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Southend VillasDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bristol Channel Yacht ClubRecreationalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.