MILEPOST AT NGR SJ 996 557

MILEPOST AT NGR SJ 996 557, ASHBOURNE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268664
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:: MILEPOST AT NGR SJ 996 557
Statutory Address:: MILEPOST AT NGR SJ 996 557, ASHBOURNE ROAD

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Date:: 2001-05-23
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268664
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Oct-1996
List Entry Name:: MILEPOST AT NGR SJ 996 557
Statutory Address 1:: MILEPOST AT NGR SJ 996 557, ASHBOURNE ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MILEPOST AT NGR SJ 996 557, ASHBOURNE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Leek
National Grid Reference:: SJ 99592 55776

Details

LEEK

SJ95NE ASHBOURNE ROAD 611-1/1/14 (West side) 07/06/72 Milepost at NGR SJ 996 557 (Formerly Listed as: ASHBOURNE ROAD Mile Post (1 mile from Leek))

II

Milepost. Dated 1834. Cast-iron. Drum-shaped top carried on cylindrical shaft, the top divided into panels by raised ribs. Raised lettering on top panels record 'Leek 1 mile Ashbourne 14 miles', and on the shaft, London 163 miles'. The domed cap carries the name of the foundry and the date, 'James Bassett Ashbourne 1834'.

Listing NGR: SJ9959255776

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 461588
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.