Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milepost
Heath, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 18 July 2001
- Locality
- Gabalfa Interchange
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Heath
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.50579, -3.19860
- Cadw reference
- 25523
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
Located on the NE side of Gabalfa Interchange, on a slip road which joins Eastern Avenue (A48). Against a concrete wall which fronts an open space.
History
C19 milepost, shown on the Ordnance Survey of 1880, which was located at the junction of two important routes out of Cardiff, Merthyr Road and Caerphilly Road. The arrangement of roads, with the construction of Gabalfa interchange, is much altered and the milepost is probably not in its original position.
Exterior
Cast iron milepost of triangular cross-section on a short square base. The 2 faces at 45 degrees have round-arched tops and lettering in relief. That to the L reads 'Cardiff 2', that to the R, 'Merthyr 22'. These faces are splayed at the base, and a triangle facing forward reads 'Caerphilly 5'. The square base has a recessed panel to the front which may have had an inscription.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare survival of a milepost at the junction of two important historic routes out of Cardiff.
Nearby in the register
- Cross InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Vicarage to Parish Church of St MarkReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Parish Church of St MarkReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Catholic Church of St JosephReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.