MILESTONE (50 METRES TO NORTH OF GRIGGS BRIDGE)

MILESTONE (50 METRES TO NORTH OF GRIGGS BRIDGE), GREEN END

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1296387
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE (50 METRES TO NORTH OF GRIGGS BRIDGE)
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE (50 METRES TO NORTH OF GRIGGS BRIDGE), GREEN END

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Date:: 2001-07-02
Reference:: IOE01/02892/06
Rights:: © Mr John Harris. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1296387
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE (50 METRES TO NORTH OF GRIGGS BRIDGE)
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE (50 METRES TO NORTH OF GRIGGS BRIDGE), GREEN END

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 (50 METRES TO NORTH OF GRIGGS BRIDGE), GREEN END

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Braughing
National Grid Reference:: TL 39208 24857

Details

Braughing village TL 32 SE BRAUGHING GREEN END (west side)

5/14 Milestone (50m to N of - Griggs Bridge)

GV II

Milestone. Circa 1742 for Wadesmill Turnpike Trust, inscription covered by iron lettered plate c1804 possibly to design of McAdam. Portland Stone with cast iron front plate. A square pillar of stone about lm high facing E with rounded top and large front plate with raised edge bead and segmental curved top. Inscription on plate reads 'LONDON/28/WARE/7/BARKWAY/7' in letters of diminishing size. The 1st and last words are raised in segmental arcs. (Branch Johnson (1970) 109-10, 187).

Listing NGR: TL3920824857

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 161215
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 109-10
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 187

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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.