Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milepost by Fron-oleu
Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 27 February 2004
- Locality
- Trawsfynydd
- Community
- Trawsfynydd
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.89623, -3.91783
- Cadw reference
- 82538
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Set alongside the E side of the A470 S of Fron-oleu; to S of the village of Trawsfynydd
History
Probably mid C19 milepost. Merioneth was the last of the Welsh counties to have turnpike roads and it was at a county meeting in Dolgellau in 1775 that it was resolved to convert the principal tracks of the county into turnpikes, in partnership with Caernarfonshire. By the end of the C18 most of the existing roads had been brought under the Trust under the Merioneth Turnpike Act of 1777 and the line of the modern road from Maentwrog to Dolgellau more or less follows the line of the early turnpike and was certainly in place by the time of the Tithe Map of the parish, 1849.
Exterior
Cast iron milepost with a triangular profile, wider at the top with a raking head and facing panels which bear the names and distances: DOLGELLEY / 12 on the left hand face and TRAWSFYNYDD on the right.
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved C19 milepost, one of a series along the A470.
Nearby in the register
- Pont TrawsfynyddTransportunder 1 mi
- Capel Moriah FroReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Statue of Hedd WynCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Hayban and cowhouse at Berth-dduAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.