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Mile Marker

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.6769 / 52°40'37"N

Longitude: -3.8809 / 3°52'51"W

OS Eastings: 272928

OS Northings: 310465

OS Grid: SH729104

Mapcode National: GBR 91.4F3J

Mapcode Global: WH56W.CZ55

Plus Code: 9C4RM4G9+QJ

Entry Name: Mile Marker

Listing Date: 10 April 2000

Last Amended: 10 April 2000

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 23158

Building Class: Transport

ID on this website: 300023158

Location: The post is set in the verge of the road at a sharp bend, opposite Dolfaenog-fawr farm.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Llanfihangel-y-Pennant

Community: Llanfihangel-y-Pennant

Locality: Fawnog

Traditional County: Merionethshire

Tagged with: Milestone

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History

The Merionethshire Turnpike Trust was first established in 1777, and had 5 districts, this route being in the Dolgellau & Mawddach area, which was absorbed into the larger Dolgelley Mawddwy and Towyn district in 1851, and was finally dissolved after 1875. The mile marker post was probably erected by the turnpike trust in c1827 when the route from Dolgellau to Towyn was remade .

Exterior

Made of cast iron, of triangular section rising from a moulded plinth to an enlarged top sloping back to an edge roll moulding. Raised cast lettering reading, on the left TOWYN / 11; on the right, DOLGELLEY / 9.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a good and well preserved example of the C19 cast iron mile markers of the type frequently used in the earlier decades of the C19; and one within one of the most complete series of such posts to survive.

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