Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milepost to NNE of Cei Newydd
Talsarnau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 30 December 2004
- Locality
- Vale of Ffestiniog
- Community
- Talsarnau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.93321, -4.04044
- Cadw reference
- 83460
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 NW side of the A496, to NNE of Cei Newydd.
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 MerionyddTurnpike Act of 1777. The stretch of road that this series of mileposts serves was constructed following the reclamation of Traeth Mawr, and the erection of the Cob at Porthmadog, opened in 1808.
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: BLAENAU / FFESTINIOG / 8 on the left hand face and HARLECH / 6 on the right.
Reason for designation
Listed as a C19 milepost, one of a series along the road between Maentwrog and Harlech.
Nearby in the register
- Cei Tyddyn IsaQuayunder 1 mi
- Wharf at Cei NewyddMaritimeunder 1 mi
- Agricultural range at Gelli GrinAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Coed Cae Fali Hut Circle SettlementEnclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.