Description

WIDCOMBE HILL
656-1/57/1903 (North side)

Boundary marker opposite Macauley Buildings

II

Boundary marker. Dated 1827, but date hidden. Cast iron. Canted shaft with hipped top, base partly concealed by later paving, with raised painted inscriptions, to left WIDCOMBE, to right erased, but probably should be Claverton. Running vertically on narrow front facet, BATH TURNPIKE TRUST.
HISTORY: one of a series of parish boundary markers erected in 1827 by the Bath Turnpike Trust during the period that John Loudon McAdam was engineer to the trust (1826-1836). Widecombe Hill was an important road link, connecting the city with Bradford and Trowbridge: it s marked as such on Harcourt Masters¿s 1793 map of Bath.
SOURCES: Bath Archaeological Trust/RCHM England, Georgian Bath Historical Map (1989); Civil Engineering Heritage, Sievewright WJ: Wales and Western England (1986); 20 AVON.

Listing NGR: ST7647963892

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26674609

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)