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Latitude: 52.9365 / 52°56'11"N
Longitude: -4.0219 / 4°1'18"W
OS Eastings: 264210
OS Northings: 339587
OS Grid: SH642395
Mapcode National: GBR 5V.M1HL
Mapcode Global: WH55N.6G26
Plus Code: 9C4QWXPH+H6
Entry Name: Milespost to E of Gelli Grin
Listing Date: 30 December 2004
Last Amended: 30 December 2004
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 83461
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300083461
Location: Set along the N side of the A496 to E of Gelli Grin
County: Gwynedd
Community: Talsarnau
Community: Talsarnau
Locality: Vale of Ffestiniog
Traditional County: Merionethshire
Tagged with: Milestone
Probably mid C19 milepost. Merioneth was the last of the Welsh counties to have turnpike roads and it was at a county meeting in Dolgellau in 1775 that it was resolved to convert the principal tracks of the county into turnpikes, in partnership with Caernarfonshire. By the end of the C18 most of the existing roads had been brought under the Trust under the Merioneth Turnpike Act of 1777. The stretch of road that this series of mileposts serves was constructed following the reclamation of Traeth Mawr, and the erection of the Cob at Porthmadog, opened in 1808.
Cast iron milepost with a triangular profile, wider at the top with a raking head and facing panels which bear the names and distances: BLAENAU / FFESTINIOG / 7 on the left hand face and HARLECH / 7 on the right.
Listed as a C19 milepost, one of a series along the road between Maentwrog and Harlech.
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