MILEPOST ON B3170 AT NGR ST 2275 1535

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060231
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: MILEPOST ON B3170 AT NGR ST 2275 1535
Statutory Address:: MILEPOST ON B3170 AT NGR ST 2275 1535

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Date:: 2002-11-13
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060231
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: MILEPOST ON B3170 AT NGR ST 2275 1535
Statutory Address 1:: MILEPOST ON B3170 AT NGR ST 2275 1535

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MILEPOST ON B3170 AT NGR ST 2275 1535

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Otterford
National Grid Reference:: ST 22728 15292

Details

ST21NW OTTERFORD CP

6/40 Milepost on B3170 at NGR ST 2275 1535

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Milepost. Circa 1840, Iron founders Allen and Co of Taunton. Cast iron. Triangular in plan, hollow in section, sloping top and plinth with founders name. Inscribed in raised lettering left side 'HONITON 11 3/8", right "TAUNTON 7". Set at an angle leaning backwards, about 1.2m high. The Honiton and Ilminster Trust obtained consent to turnpike the section of road from Shoreditch, south of Taunton, to the Devon border by an Act of 1840. An almost complete set of mileposts survives along the road. (Bentley, J.B and Murless, B.J Somerset Roads - The Legacy of the Turnpikes, 1995).

Listing NGR: ST2272815292

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Legacy System number:: 271208
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Bentley, J B, Murless, B J , Somerset Roads: The Legacy of the Turnpikes Western Somerset, (1985)

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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.