MILEPOST ON TOWPATH NEAR WILSTONE AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SP 9024 1435

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078015
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: MILEPOST ON TOWPATH NEAR WILSTONE AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SP 9024 1435
Statutory Address:: MILEPOST ON TOWPATH NEAR WILSTONE AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SP 9024 1435

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078015
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: MILEPOST ON TOWPATH NEAR WILSTONE AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SP 9024 1435
Statutory Address 1:: MILEPOST ON TOWPATH NEAR WILSTONE AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SP 9024 1435

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 TOWPATH NEAR WILSTONE AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SP 9024 1435

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:: Tring Rural
National Grid Reference:: SP 90245 14350

Details

TRING RURAL GRAND UNION CANAL - SP 9014 AYLESBURY ARM 9/129 Milepost on towpath - near Wilstone at Grid Ref SP 9024 1435 GV II Milepost giving distance along Aylesbury Arm. 1896 for Grand Junction Canal Company. In raised lettering on back 'LONDON & LANKASHIRE/ ELECTRICAL & GENL/ENGINEERING CO LIMITED/LONDON'. Cast iron painted. A small rectangular upright plate with radiused corners and raised bead at edge. Figure '1' in relief in centre. Plate cast integral with T-section iron post with makers' name once on each half of back. Stone mileposts were replaced by cast iron ones in 1896 (Branch Johnson(1970)120).

Listing NGR: SP9024514350

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Legacy System number:: 355765
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Sources

Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 120

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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.