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Milepost at SP 28003 33503

A Grade II Listed Building in Long Compton, Warwickshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.9993 / 51°59'57"N

Longitude: -1.5935 / 1°35'36"W

OS Eastings: 428003

OS Northings: 233503

OS Grid: SP280335

Mapcode National: GBR 5QL.RXQ

Mapcode Global: VHBZ1.B0FP

Plus Code: 9C3WXCX4+PH

Entry Name: Milepost at SP 28003 33503

Listing Date: 15 March 2018

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1454485

ID on this website: 101454485

Location: Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, CV36

County: Warwickshire

District: Stratford-on-Avon

Civil Parish: Long Compton

Built-Up Area: Long Compton

Traditional County: Warwickshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Warwickshire

Tagged with: Milestone Architectural structure

Summary


A cast-iron milepost, erected probably around 1818.

Description


A cast-iron milepost, erected probably around 1818.

DESCRIPTION: it consists of a cylindrical-fluted base onto which is surmounted a tall, fluted cast-iron shaft with decorative enrichment of bud-like form to the lower section. The shaft supports decorative wrought-iron scrollwork arms with simple acanthus leaf embellishment. These support an early-C21 wooden place name board (original not extant). At the top of the shaft there is further acanthus leaf decorative work.

History


The Stratford-upon-Avon to Long Compton Turnpike Trust was established by Act of Parliament in 1729 and a turnpiked road was subsequently established from Bridge Town in the parish of Old Stratford to the top of Long Compton Hill. An Account and Minute Book of March 1790 records that ‘Triangular Mile Posts be set up along the road with two iron plates to each of them setting forth the distance from London and Oxford’. The mileposts do not, however, appear to have been erected until around 1818 when an Act was passed which included provisions for the turnpike to be extended from Long Compton to the Inn at Chapel House to the south-east, along a new stretch of road also sanctioned in the same Act. A milepost (Shipston on Stour 7) in the same sequence is depicted on this new stretch of road on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1887, but does not seems to be extant.

The milepost (London 77) at SP 28003 33503 to the north of Long Compton is depicted on the 1887 OS map which records the distance as Shipston on Stour 5; the 1905 map is marked Shipston-on-Stour 5, Long Compton 1. The milepost was restored in 2017.

Reasons for Listing


The milepost at SP 28003 33503 to the north of Long Comptonis listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* it has an unusually ornate and visual design which is enriched with decorative scrollwork.

Historic interest:

* as testament to the wave of road improvement and the introduction of turnpikes which facilitated the transport needs of this part of Warwickshire in the C18 and C19.

Group value:

* it is one of a series of almost identical mileposts built for this turnpike trust along this national route, of which six are known to survive.

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