Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milepost
Pennal, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pennal, Machynlleth, Gwynedd, designated on 25 May 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 25 May 2000
- Locality
- Pennal
- Town
- Machynlleth
- Community
- Pennal
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.57529, -3.94941
- Cadw reference
- 23319
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
Cadw's description
Location
The milespost stands in the S verge of the main road, on the hilltop nearly opposite Tan-y-graig.
History
The milepost was probably erected in the first decades of the C19, on the main road from Machynlleth to Twywn and the coast.
Exterior
A cast iron distance marker of triangular form, open at the back, the sides sloping back at the top to a gabled top plate with raised lettering in a bold Roman typeface set in a curve, reading ABERDOVEY 5. On the left, similar raised lettering reading TOWYN, also set in a curve and within the arc, 9, and on the right, MACHYNLLETH / 5.
Reason for designation
Included as a particularly elegantly lettered mile marker with lettering typical of the early C19.
Nearby in the register
- Gelli GraeanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn Range at Gogarth HallAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Gogarth HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Plas TalgarthDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.