Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milestone-Abergavenny 3
Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 9 December 2005
- Locality
- Llanover
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Goetre Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.77790, -3.00619
- Cadw reference
- 87173
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the east side of the A4052 by the junction with the minor road to the parish church and near the North Gate to Llanover Park.
History
Probably c1821 and contemporary with the dated Llanellen Bridge, all built as part of the turnpiking of what is now A4052, the main road from Abergavenny to Pontypool.
Exterior
Plain standing milestone with ramped top. Inset cast iron plate with relief lettering ABERGAVENNY 3 PONTYPOOL 7.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as one of a series of early C19 turnpike milestones on the A4052 Abergavenny-Pontypool road.
Nearby in the register
- Porth Mawr LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ochram MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Court Farm farm buildingsAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Court Farm and Court Farm CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.