Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milestone by Bryn Llefrith
Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Nant Bryn Llefrith, Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, designated on 27 February 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 27 February 2004
- Locality
- Nant Bryn Llefrith
- Community
- Trawsfynydd
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.88413, -3.90904
- Cadw reference
- 82539
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 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 135 Harlech (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set along the E side of a country road which leads SSE off the A470 to S of Trawsfynydd to Penystryd and on to Abergeirw and Dolgellau. The milestone is set in the wall to S of the entrance to Bryn Llefrith.
History
Probably C18 milestone, similar in style to several dated mid C18 stones along the road between Harlech and Barmouth, and probably pre-dating the Turnpikes in the county. 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, the main road between Maentwrog and Dolgellau (the present A470) was in place by the Tithe Map of the parish, 1849, and had probably become the principal route through the county by that time.
Exterior
Large boulder slab milestone, now set into a drystone wall, which bears the incised lettering: DOLGELLEY / 11 MILES.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good C18 milestone, of interest as it represents the importance of the route as the principal road from Dolgellau to Trawsfynydd before the A470 was built.
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilding at Berth-dduAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Hayban and cowhouse at Berth-dduAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Berth-dduNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Maen Llwyd Standing StonesStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.