MILESTONE AT NGR ST 2144 1318

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060265
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE AT NGR ST 2144 1318
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE AT NGR ST 2144 1318

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060265
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE AT NGR ST 2144 1318
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE AT NGR ST 2144 1318

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:: MILESTONE AT NGR ST 2144 1318

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Churchstanton
National Grid Reference:: ST 21435 13189

Details

ST21SW CHURCHSTANTON CP

8/17 Milestone at NGR ST 2144 1318

II

Milestone. Circa 1782, reset on new stone probably C19. Cast iron and unidentified stone. Pointed head to stone, rectangular plaque with segmental corners, raised surround and inscription in raised letters "MILES TO TAUNTON 8 HONITON 9'. The section of road from Hunters Lodge, Churchinford to the Devon boundary was turnpiked in 1792 by the Honiton Trust. (Bentley, J.B and Murless, J.B Somerset Roads- The Legacy of the Turnpikes, 1985).

Listing NGR: ST2143513189

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 271185
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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

Legal

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