Milestone Outside 100 Hills Road

MILESTONE OUTSIDE 100 HILLS ROAD, HILLS ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1391728
Date first listed:
09-Aug-2006
List Entry Name:
Milestone Outside 100 Hills Road
Statutory Address:
MILESTONE OUTSIDE 100 HILLS ROAD, HILLS ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1391728
Date first listed:
09-Aug-2006
List Entry Name:
Milestone Outside 100 Hills Road
Statutory Address 1:
MILESTONE OUTSIDE 100 HILLS ROAD, HILLS ROAD

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
MILESTONE OUTSIDE 100 HILLS ROAD, HILLS 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:
TL4575557324

Details

667/0/10159 HILLS ROAD 09-AUG-06 Milestone outside 100 Hills Road

II Milestone. Erected in 1731 by Dr William Warren. Stone block inscribed with "1 mile from Great St Mary's Church Cambridge". This is the first of a series of milestones that were erected to mark the distances between Cambrige and Haverhill. Dr Warren was a Fellow of Trinity Hall, who was also responsible for erecting a series of 16 milestones on the old road to London.

Summary of importance: Milestones are one of the few physical remains of the national historic road network and are thererfore of considerable local and national significance.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
495028
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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