Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milestone on N side of A4230
Coedffranc, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 March 2000
- Locality
- Skewen
- Community
- Coedffranc
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.66063, -3.85157
- Cadw reference
- 23071
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
Set back on the N side of New Road S of its junction with Railway Terrace/Brookville Drive and on the N side of a railway overbridge.
History
Probably erected in the mid C19 and first shown on the 1877 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A dressed milestone with segmental top and engraved letters reading: WESTERN/DISTRICT/NEATH/2/SWANSEA/6/MILES/HAMLET/OF COEDFRANK
Reason for designation
Listed for its historic interest as illustrative of transport history in the area.
Nearby in the register
- New Road OverbridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Hermon ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bethania ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- New Road Methodist ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.