Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milepost
Dyffryn Ardudwy, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 13 April 2005
- Locality
- Llanaber
- Community
- Dyffryn Ardudwy
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.75909, -4.08413
- Cadw reference
- 84354
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 W side of the A496, roughly equidistant between the turn offs to Trawsdir and Egryn.
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. It is thought that this stretch of road was constructed and maintained by the landlords of the estates through which it passed and in 1833 the Barmouth to Harlech Turnpike Trust was formed to develop the road from Barmouth to Tal-y-bont and improve the existing route from Tal-y-bont to Harlech. This post is one of a series relating to this second phase of demarcating this route.
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: HARLECH / 7 on the left hand face and BARMOUTH / 3 on the right.
Reason for designation
Listed as a distinctive cast iron C19 milepost, one of a series along the road between Harlech and Barmouth.
Nearby in the register
- 'Old House' to south of Egryn AbbeyNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Root clamp at EgrynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Former Mill and StoreAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Egryn AbbeyDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.