MILESTONE AND SECTION OF TRACK OF GRANITE TRAMWAY ON NORTH-WEST SIDE OF ROAD TO HAYTOR, ABOUT 90M NORTH-EAST OF JUNCTION WITH ROAD TO GREEN LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1317471
Date first listed:: 03-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE AND SECTION OF TRACK OF GRANITE TRAMWAY ON NORTH-WEST SIDE OF ROAD TO HAYTOR, ABOUT 90M NORTH-EAST OF JUNCTION WITH ROAD TO GREEN LANE
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE AND SECTION OF TRACK OF GRANITE TRAMWAY ON NORTH-WEST SIDE OF ROAD TO HAYTOR, ABOUT 90M NORTH-EAST OF JUNCTION WITH ROAD TO GREEN LANE

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Date:: 2002-05-01
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1317471
Date first listed:: 03-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE AND SECTION OF TRACK OF GRANITE TRAMWAY ON NORTH-WEST SIDE OF ROAD TO HAYTOR, ABOUT 90M NORTH-EAST OF JUNCTION WITH ROAD TO GREEN LANE
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE AND SECTION OF TRACK OF GRANITE TRAMWAY ON NORTH-WEST SIDE OF ROAD TO HAYTOR, ABOUT 90M NORTH-EAST OF JUNCTION WITH ROAD TO GREEN LANE

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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:: MILESTONE AND SECTION OF TRACK OF GRANITE TRAMWAY ON NORTH-WEST SIDE OF ROAD TO HAYTOR, ABOUT 90M NORTH-EAST OF JUNCTION WITH ROAD TO GREEN LANE

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

County:: Devon
District:: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Bovey Tracey
National Park:: DARTMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SX 78074 77377

Details

BOVEY TRACEY SX 77 NE

4/19 Milestone and section of track of - granite tramway on north-west side of road to Haytor, about 90m north-east of junction with road - to Green Lane

II

Milestone and section of track belonging to former granite tramway from Haytor quarry to Stover Canal. 1820s. Granite. Low granite post with roughly shaped head, carved with the figure 6 which represents the number of miles from the canal. About 1½ metres in front of it a short stretch of granite trackway. The Granite Tramway was opened in 1820 for horse-drawn wagons carrying granite from Haytor quarries to the Stover Canal, whence it was taken by barge to the port of Teignmouth. Source: M C Ewans, The Haytor Granite Tramway, 1964.

Listing NGR: SX7807477377

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Ewans, M C , The Haytor Granite Tramway, (1964)

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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.