Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milepost on Gwscwm Road
Pembrey and Burry Port Town, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 25 November 2003
- Locality
- Furnace
- Community
- Pembrey and Burry Port Town
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.68872, -4.26002
- Cadw reference
- 82070
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
Approximately 120m NW of the junction with Furnace Road.
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 4½ miles' on one face, and on the other 'To Kidwelly 5 miles' and 'Carmarthen 14'.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as one of a series of well-preserved mileposts on the A484.
Nearby in the register
- Stanley's BridgeNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Stanley's Tramroad Embankment, PembreyTramroadunder 1 mi
- Colliery Ventilation Furnace at PembreyChimneyunder 1 mi
- Plas KenrhosNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.