Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Fingerpost on Neath Road / Plas Road
Cilybebyll, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhos, Cilybebyll, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 28 September 2022.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 28 September 2022
- Welsh name
- Mynegbost ar Ffordd Castell-nedd / Ffordd y Pl
- Locality
- Rhos
- Community
- Cilybebyll
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.71269, -3.82675
- Cadw reference
- 87882
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 230 Ammanford (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 230 Ammanford (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the SE side of the junction of Neath Road and Plas Road in the centre of Rhos.
History
Late C19 / early C20 finger post giving directions to Cilybebyll. Erected after the 1888 Local Government Act which gave responsibility for roads to each County Council.
Exterior
Cast iron finger post with single arm. Plain post, banded black and white. Arm with raised border and finger outline and lettering ‘TO CIL-Y-BEBYLL / 1 MILE 1¼ FUR. Plain capital, post topped with hexagonal cap.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural and historic interest as a well-preserved example of a late C19 / early C20 fingerpost, a type of street furniture once common but now increasingly rare.
Nearby in the register
- Standing Stones 300m W of CefncelfiStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Cefn CelfiDomesticunder 1 mi
- Burial Chamber at Pen-yr-AlltwenChambered Tombunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding at The MillAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.