MILESTONE NEAR CORNEY BURY

MILESTONE NEAR CORNEY BURY, ROYSTON ROAD (A10)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1348018
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE NEAR CORNEY BURY
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE NEAR CORNEY BURY, ROYSTON ROAD (A10)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1348018
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE NEAR CORNEY BURY
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE NEAR CORNEY BURY, ROYSTON ROAD (A10)

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 NEAR CORNEY BURY, ROYSTON ROAD (A10)

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Cottered
National Grid Reference:: TL 35619 30758

Details

TL 33 SE COTTERED ROYSTON ROAD (A10) (west side)

2/1 Milestone near Corney Bury -

II

Milestone. Circa 1742 for Wadesmill Turnpike Trust. Face covered by iron lettered plate c1804 probably to design of McAdam. Whitefreestone with cast iron plate. A square stone pillar about 50 cm tall with large front plate of iron. Segmental curved top to plate and raised edge-bead. Inscription reads, 'LONDON/32/BUNTINGFORD/1/ROYSTON/6'. The first and second words are raised in segmental arcs. (Branch Johnson (1970) 109- 10, 187).

Listing NGR: TL3561930758

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Legacy System number:: 159873
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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

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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.