Marker Stone Opposite Monument Farm
MARKER STONE OPPOSITE MONUMENT FARM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363767
- Date first listed:
- 25-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Marker Stone Opposite Monument Farm
- Statutory Address:
- MARKER STONE OPPOSITE MONUMENT FARM
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363767
- Date first listed:
- 25-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Marker Stone Opposite Monument Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARKER STONE OPPOSITE MONUMENT FARM
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.
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:
- MARKER STONE OPPOSITE MONUMENT FARM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bremhill
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 97304 73696
Details
BREMHILL WICK HILL ST 97 SE 8/89 Marker stone opposite Monument Farm (formerly listed as Inscribed Stone on Wick Hill) II Marker stone, uncertain date, about 1.5m high, with affixed cast- iron plate reading 'From this Wick-Hill /Begins the Praise/Of Maud Heath's Gift/ To these Highways', and 'The translation into English verse of the earlier Latin inscription on the stone was made by the Rev. W.L. Bowles Vicar of Bremhill in 1827'. The starting point of the footpath from Wick Hill to Chippenham maintained from the gift of Maud Heath of Langley Burrell made 12 June 1474. The stone may date from 1698, when the feoffees erected the column at Kellaways Bridge and the corresponding marker stone at Chippenham Clift. (K.R. Clew, Maud Heath's Causeway A brief guide 1982 - leaflet)
Listing NGR: ST9730473696
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 316213
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Clew, K R, Maud Heaths Causeway A brief guide, (1982)
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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