Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milepost at Trooper's Inn
Freystrop, Pembrokeshire, Wales
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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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (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.