Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milepost on Dan Lan Road
Pembrey and Burry Port Town, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pembrey, Pembrey and Burry Port Town, Carmarthenshire, designated on 25 November 2003.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 25 November 2003
- Locality
- Pembrey
- Community
- Pembrey and Burry Port Town
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.68922, -4.28212
- Cadw reference
- 82069
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1907 · 246 Worms Head (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1920 · Sheet 100. Llanelly. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On a bridge over a former railway, approximately 500m WNW of the parish church.
History
A late C19 milepost, one of a series on the Llanelly to Kidwelly road cast by Glanmor Foundry Company of Llanelli, and shown on the 1880 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A V-shaped cast iron milepost with ramped top, painted white, on a square plinth. It reads, in raised letters and numerals painted black, 'To Llanelly 5½ miles' on one face, and on the other 'To Kidwelly 4 miles' and 'Carmarthen 13'.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as one of a series of well-preserved mileposts on the A484.
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilding on S side of Court FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Court FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Animal Pound at Pembrey ChurchAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Former canal overbridgeTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.