Milestone Beside the Road Opposite Brookland Avenue
MILESTONE BESIDE THE ROAD OPPOSITE BROOKLAND AVENUE, TRUMPINGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331915
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone Beside the Road Opposite Brookland Avenue
- Statutory Address:
- MILESTONE BESIDE THE ROAD OPPOSITE BROOKLAND AVENUE, TRUMPINGTON ROAD
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- Date:
- 2003-10-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/11513/24
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331915
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone Beside the Road Opposite Brookland Avenue
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILESTONE BESIDE THE ROAD OPPOSITE BROOKLAND AVENUE, TRUMPINGTON ROAD
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MILESTONE BESIDE THE ROAD OPPOSITE BROOKLAND AVENUE, TRUMPINGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Cambridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 45267 56951
Details
TRUMPINGTON ROAD 1. 942 (West Side) Milestone beside the road opposite Brookland Avenue TL 45 NE 21/311 10.5.62. II 2. The first of a series of 16 stones set up on the old road to London by William Warren in 1728 under the will of Dr William Mowse Master of Trinity Hall 1552-3. It is a rectangular stone with inset rounded head and has the arms of Trinity Hall impaling Mowse and a pointing hand. The inscription reads "1 Mile to Great Saint Maries Church Cambridge" "A D" (the date illegible but was 1728). See also the datum mark on Great St Mary's Church. (RCHM 83).
Listing NGR: TL4526756951
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47825
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge, (1959)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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