Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milestone
Marchwiel, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Marchwiel, Wrexham, designated on 23 August 2016.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 23 August 2016
- Welsh name
- Carreg filltir
- Community
- Marchwiel
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.02355, -2.96331
- Cadw reference
- 87687
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Next to Providence House on the south side of the A525 (Wrexham Road), to the west of the junction with the A528 Overton Road.
History
Marchwiel sits on the junction of two historic routes from the south-east to Wrexham, from Shrewsbury through Ellesmere and Overton (A528/A539) and from Whitchurch through Bangor-is-y-coed (A525). Two Turnpike Acts were passed in the mid C18 to improve these routes and only a limited number of milestones have been recorded as surviving, two on the Overton-Ellesmere road (both listed), two on the Bangor-Whitchurch road and two on the Overton-Hanmer road.
The first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1879 shows a milestone in the location in Marchwiel with distances to Ellesmere/Overton/Wrexham, and another milestone nearer Wrexham at Kings Mills. A milestone is shown on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map of 1899 with distances to Wrexham/Ellesmere, the same as the distances shown on the milestone plaque suggesting that the stone is earlier, possibly original to the passing of the Turnpike Act with the plaque added in the 1890’s.
Exterior
Milestone, rounded stone with attached cast iron plaque, with a rounded and shouldered head and painted white with raised lettering ‘TO, M, WREXHAM 2, ELLESMERE 10’. Largely hidden by raised ground levels but revealed at the time of inspection.
Interior
NA
Reason for designation
Included for its special historic interest as a well preserved late C19 milestone, possibly incorporating an earlier milestone, and one of the few surviving milestones on the Marchwiel, Whitchurch and Ellesmere turnpike system.
Nearby in the register
- Church of SS Marcella and DeiniolReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Churchyard walls, gatepiers, railings and gates to S of Church of SS Marcella and DeiniolReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Marchwiel Old HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- IvydaleDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.