Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milepost at Trooper's Inn
Freystrop, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Trooper's Inn, Haverfordwest, Freystrop, Pembrokeshire, designated on 21 April 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 21 April 2004
- Locality
- Trooper's Inn
- Town
- Haverfordwest
- Community
- Freystrop
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.75239, -4.95325
- Cadw reference
- 82674
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 228 Haverfordwest (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located on the E side of the road some 40m N of the road junction at Trooper's Inn.
History
C19 cast iron mile marker on Haverfordwest to Pembroke Ferry turnpike road.
Exterior
Mile post, 2 white painted cast iron plates with triangular tops set into triangular stone. Plates have raised letters in black which read 'TO PEMBROKE FERRY 4 MILES 237 YARDS' on the N side and ' TO HAVERFORDWEST 3 MILES' on the S side.
Reason for designation
Included for its historic transport interest as a C19 mile post on the Haverfordwest to Pembroke Ferry turnpike road.
Nearby in the register
- Round Barrow 300m NW of TallyhoRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- ClarestonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Entrance gatepiers, gates and railings at ClarestonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stable block at ClarestonDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.