Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milepost
Dyffryn Ardudwy, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 13 April 2005
- Locality
- Tal-y-bont
- Community
- Dyffryn Ardudwy
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.77222, -4.09167
- Cadw reference
- 84355
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 leading S out of the village of Tal-y-bont; c. 0.5km S of the centre of the village.
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 Merioneth Turnpike Act of 1777. It is thought that this stretch of road was first constructed and maintained by the landlords of the estates through which it passed but 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 / 6 on the left hand face and BARMOUTH / 4 on the right.
Reason for designation
Listed as a C19 milepost, one of a series along the road between Harlech and Barmouth.
Nearby in the register
- Ty-Ucha-Bach and Ty-Ucha-MawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tal-y-bont bridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Milestone at Tal-y-bont BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Mill HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.