MILESTONE ON THE A388 NE OF SHEERS BARTON (NGR SX3459582343)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392041
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-2007
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE ON THE A388 NE OF SHEERS BARTON (NGR SX3459582343)
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE ON THE A388 NE OF SHEERS BARTON (NGR SX3459582343)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392041
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-2007
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE ON THE A388 NE OF SHEERS BARTON (NGR SX3459582343)
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE ON THE A388 NE OF SHEERS BARTON (NGR SX3459582343)

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MILESTONE ON THE A388 NE OF SHEERS BARTON (NGR SX3459582343)

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lawhitton Rural
National Grid Reference:: SX 34597 82342

Details

LAWHITTON RURAL

1558/0/10019 Milestone on the A388 NE of Sheers Bar 05-JUN-07 ton (NGR SX3459582343)

II Mid C19 milestone of granite that is rectangular in plan rising to a point at the top. The front (west) face, edges, and top have been dressed. Black painted incised capital lettering on the front (west) face: 'LAUNCESTON 2 / TAVISTOCK 11½ / CALLINGTON 8½'. On the apex of the front face is an Ordnance Survey benchmark and a metal pin on the apex itself.

HISTORY: This milestone is one of a series erected by the Launceston Turnpike Trust which was established in 1760 by an Act of Parliament. The original road from Launceston to Greystone Bridge was made a turnpike in 1760, but the Act of 1815 specifically mentions the road from `Launceston through parishes of Lawitton and Lezant to Greystone Bridge'. Documentary sources indicate that the milestones for this route were carved and erected in 1858.

SOURCES: The Milestone Society (2007): http://www.milestone-society.co.uk/

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: Milestones are of special interest as one of the few physical remains of national and local historic road use. They reflect the standardisation of roads and the introduction of turnpikes. This mid C19 milestone situated on the former turnpike road (the A388) from Launceston to Greystone Bridge, has special interest as a physical marker of the area's changing transport history. It also has group value with other listed milestones on this route.

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Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 503134
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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