Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Fingerpost on junction of Capel Dewi Road and Porthyrhyd Road
Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 10 February 2023
- Welsh name
- Mynegbost ar gyffordd Ffordd Capel Dewi a Ffordd Porth-y-rhyd
- Community
- Llanarthney
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85835, -4.18996
- Cadw reference
- 87897
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 W side of the junction of the B4300 and B4310 at Pen-y-Ffin, 1m east of Capel Dewi
History
Fingerpost giving directions Llandeilo and Porthyrhyd. The arm to Capel Dewi / Carmarthen is missing.
Erected by Carmarthen County Council after the 1888 Local Government Act gave responsibility for roads to each County Council, so late C19 or early C20.
Exterior
Cast iron finger - plain post, moulded capital. Two arms with raised lettering, above with ‘PORTHYRHYD 3¼” below with ‘LLANDILO 9½ ’ [sic]. Post topped with ring inscribed ‘CARMARTHEN CC’.
Reason for designation
Included, notwithstanding the loss of one of the arms, for its special architectural interest as a rare surviving example of an late C19 / early C20 fingerpost, a type of street furniture once common but now increasingly rare.
Nearby in the register
- Milestone near Pont Llandeilo-yr-ynysTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont Llandeilo-yr-ynys (partly in Llanegwad Community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Pont Llandeilo-yr-ynys (partly in Llanarthney Community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Llandeilo-yr-Ynys FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.