MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 300 YARDS EAST SOUTH EAST OF FOOTBALL GROUND

MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 300 YARDS EAST SOUTH EAST OF FOOTBALL GROUND, WATLING STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1209978
Date first listed:: 08-Apr-1983
List Entry Name:: MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 300 YARDS EAST SOUTH EAST OF FOOTBALL GROUND
Statutory Address:: MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 300 YARDS EAST SOUTH EAST OF FOOTBALL GROUND, WATLING STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1209978
Date first listed:: 08-Apr-1983
List Entry Name:: MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 300 YARDS EAST SOUTH EAST OF FOOTBALL GROUND
Statutory Address 1:: MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 300 YARDS EAST SOUTH EAST OF FOOTBALL GROUND, WATLING STREET

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

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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 APPROXIMATELY 300 YARDS EAST SOUTH EAST OF FOOTBALL GROUND, WATLING STREET

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District:: Telford and Wrekin (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wellington
National Grid Reference:: SJ 66477 11100

Details

WELLINGTON WATLING STREET 1. 5362 Mile Post approximately 300 yds east-south-east of football ground SJ 61SE 28/673

II

2. Circa 1815-19. Cast iron with splayed sides and top inscribed in relief:- London 139, Shifnal 6, Salop 11 m 6 fur'. In 1815 the Holyhead Road Commission authorised Thomas Telford to improve the Holyhead Road from London. The period of improvement was 1815-35 but this section from Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton was constructed before 1819 by Henry Williams, contractor. The cast iron mile post was possibly made by the Coalbrookdale Company, as were others q.v. Holyhead Road, Wellington, and Watling Street, Wrockwardine.

Listing NGR: SJ6647811099

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Legacy System number:: 362455
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.