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Latitude: 51.6017 / 51°36'6"N
Longitude: -3.5412 / 3°32'28"W
OS Eastings: 293356
OS Northings: 190330
OS Grid: SS933903
Mapcode National: GBR HF.BCZ8
Mapcode Global: VH5H5.K0SG
Plus Code: 9C3RJF25+MG
Entry Name: Finger Post at the junction of High Street and Glyn Street
Listing Date: 28 July 1997
Last Amended: 28 July 1997
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 18600
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300018600
Location: The post stands on an elevated triangle of land on the acute junction of High Street and Glyn Street.
County: Bridgend
Town: Ogmore Valley
Community: Ogmore Valley (Cwm Ogwr)
Community: Ogmore Valley
Locality: Ogmore Vale
Built-Up Area: Ogmore Vale
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Architectural structure Fingerpost
The direction post was probably set up shortly after the formation of the Ogmore and Garw Urban District Council in 1894. The post and arms were cast by the Tondu Engineering Works.
Cast iron direction post, consisting of a tapered round column with moulded base, a necking band and cyma moulded capital, over which is mounted, on sleeves, two rectangular direction plates pointing in appropriate directions, and reading TO BRIDGEND and TO NANTYMOEL. Cast on the column is the lettering TONDU ENG WORKS and O & G / U D C . The column is capped by a stilted ball finial.
Included as one of the few cast iron finger posts to survive in position, and an example of the product of the Tondu Iron Works.
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