Milestone at NGR SJ 3417 2643

Milestone at NGR SJ 3417 2643, B5009, Queens Head, Oswaldry, SY11 4EG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367379
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: Milestone at NGR SJ 3417 2643
Statutory Address:: Milestone at NGR SJ 3417 2643, B5009, Queens Head, Oswaldry, SY11 4EG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367379
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: Milestone at NGR SJ 3417 2643
Statutory Address 1:: Milestone at NGR SJ 3417 2643, B5009, Queens Head, Oswaldry, SY11 4EG

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 NGR SJ 3417 2643, B5009, Queens Head, Oswaldry, SY11 4EG

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: West Felton
National Grid Reference:: SJ 34168 26431

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 23/03/2018

SJ 32 NW SJ 3417 2643 7/60

WEST FELTON CP Queens Head B5009 Milestone at NGR SJ 3417 2643

(Formerly listed as Milestone at NGR SJ 3417 264, A.5 (west side))

II Milestone erected 1826-1827 on Thomas Telford's Holyhead Road. Limestone, possibly painted at a later date, with slightly recessed cast-iron plate.

Superscription "HOLY-/ HEAD / 93-M / SALOP / 13M-6F."

Listing NGR: SJ3416826431

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Legacy System number:: 255773
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Falconer, K, Guide to Englands Industrial Heritage, (1980)
'Report of the Select Committee on the Holyhead and Liverpool Roads' in 19th Century House of Commons Sessions, , Vol. 10, (1830), X.131

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.