Milestone Opposite Number 9 (Mushroom Cottage)

MILESTONE OPPOSITE NUMBER 9 (MUSHROOM COTTAGE), HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1102531
Date first listed:
28-May-1987
Statutory Address:
MILESTONE OPPOSITE NUMBER 9 (MUSHROOM COTTAGE), HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1102531
Date first listed:
28-May-1987
Statutory Address 1:
MILESTONE OPPOSITE NUMBER 9 (MUSHROOM COTTAGE), HIGH STREET

Location

Statutory Address:
MILESTONE OPPOSITE NUMBER 9 (MUSHROOM COTTAGE), HIGH STREET

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Graveley
National Grid Reference:
TL 23149 27712

Details

GRAVELEY HIGH STREET TL 2327 (East side)

13/15 Milestone opposite - No. 9 (Mushroom Cottage)

- II

Milestone. C18. For the Stevenage-Biggleswade Turnpike Trust (founded 1720). White freestone probably Portland Stone. On roadside verge to S of layby, a milestone about 15 inches square and standing about 27 inches out of the ground. The top cut as a blunt pyramid. On N face an inscription in deeply cut C18 lettering, '33/MILES/from/LONDON'. Similar inscription much weathered on S face suggests stone reversed when inscription required recutting. (Branch Johnson (1970)187).

Listing NGR: TL2314927712

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162628
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Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 187

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