MILESTONE AT TOP OF LORD'S HILL

MILESTONE AT TOP OF LORD'S HILL, SHAFTSBURY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1364337
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE AT TOP OF LORD'S HILL
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE AT TOP OF LORD'S HILL, SHAFTSBURY ROAD

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Date:: 2001-01-06
Reference:: IOE01/02470/01
Rights:: © Ms Geraldine Bunn. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1364337
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE AT TOP OF LORD'S HILL
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE AT TOP OF LORD'S HILL, SHAFTSBURY ROAD

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 AT TOP OF LORD'S HILL, SHAFTSBURY ROAD

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Longbridge Deverill
National Grid Reference:: ST 88834 38326

Details

LONGBRIDGE DEVERILL SHAFTESBURY ROAD ST 83 NE (west side) 3/202 Milestone at top of Lord's Hill

GV II

Milestone. 1840. Cast-iron pillar with classical pedimented top and plinth, lettering in relief: WARMINSTER/5/MILES/SHAFTESBURY /10/MILES, Initials C & M/W 1840 on plinth, representing the Warminster firm of ironfounders, Carson and Miller. Part of the radial turnpike system established around Warminster in 1726, a series of cast-iron milestones were produced c1840, coinciding with a consolidation of the Turnpike Act. (R. Haynes, Wiltshire Milestones: Leisure in Wiltshire, 1968.)

Listing NGR: ST8883338325

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Legacy System number:: 313423
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Haynes, R , 'County Councils Gazette' in Wiltshire Milestones, (1968)

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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.