Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milepost by Crack Hill House
Colwinston, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 23 July 2003
- Locality
- Colwinston
- Town
- Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
- Community
- Colwinston
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.47995, -3.52652
- Cadw reference
- 81332
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
On the north side of the road about half way up Crack Hill.
History
Dated 1835 and erected by the Cowbridge District Turnpike Trust
Exterior
Ornately moulded cast-iron milepost in Gothic style, one of a series on the A48 to the West of Cardiff. Rectangular panels at the base, the lower one with date '1835' and the upper one with the words 'Colwinston Parish'. Behind and above this, a tall crowning tablet with rounded head and the inscription 'Cowbridge District' at the top. Two pointed panels protrude from the lower part of this tablet, the left hand one inscribed 'To Cowbridge 4' and the right hand one inscribed 'To Bridgend 3'. A segmental panel inscribed 'London 174' below these and above rectangular panels at base. See similar listed mileposts in City of Cardiff, namely, in Cowbridge Road East and West and in the Museum of Welsh Life at St Fagans.
Reason for designation
Included as a particularly elaborate turnpike milepost which is one of a series on the A48.
Nearby in the register
- BrocastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Courtyard range at BrocastleAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Village HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The SagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.