Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milestone at the Oakeley Arms
Maentwrog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 25 February 2005
- Locality
- Tan-y-bwlch
- Community
- Maentwrog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.94900, -3.99509
- Cadw reference
- 84012
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 at the N side of the A487(T) at its junction with the B4410, to NE end of the small hamlet of Tan-y-bwlch. The milestone is set in a wall at the S corner of the Oakeley Arms.
History
Probably early C19 milestone. 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 milestone was probably erected in the early C19, possibly contemporary with the refacing of the adjacent public house and hotel, and utilising the slate quarried from the estate quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Exterior
Rectangular slate milestone that bears the inscription:
MILES / LONDON 226 / DOLGELLEY 18 / HARLECH 10 / BARMOUTH 20 / BALA 22 / FESTINIOG 3 / LLANRWST 22 / CAPEL CERIG 23 / BEDDGELERT 10 / PORTMADOC 7 / CARNARVON 23 / PWLLHELI 21.
(1 mile = 1.609 kms)
Reason for designation
Listed as an early C19 milestone that forms a group with the adjacent public house and hotel and cartshed at The Oakeley Arms.
Nearby in the register
- The Oakeley Arms HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Coach house range at the Oakeley ArmsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former kiln house at Tan-y-bwlch millIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Ty'r FelinAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.