Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Milestone about 150m NW of White House
Penybont, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 11 August 1993
- Locality
- White House
- Community
- Penybont
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.28185, -3.27300
- Cadw reference
- 9329
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set into grassy verge in open countryside, White House uphill to SE.
History
Late C18/early C19.
Exterior
Simple low round-headed stone, overpainted. Presumably erected by Radnorshire Turnpike Trust. Inscription reads: "Knighton 13 miles: Penybont + mile".
Reason for designation
One of a consistent series of milestones still remaining in this part of Radnorshire.
Nearby in the register
- Penybont Common Roman road and early turnpike roadRoadunder 1 mi
- Crabtree, including attached farm rangeNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Coed-swydd enclosureEnclosure - Defensiveunder 1 mi
- Medieval Settlement on Penybont CommonDeserted Rural Settlementunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.