MILESTONE ON B3254 NEAR RECYCLING CENTRE (NGR SX3219883351)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392043
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-2007
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE ON B3254 NEAR RECYCLING CENTRE (NGR SX3219883351)
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE ON B3254 NEAR RECYCLING CENTRE (NGR SX3219883351)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392043
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-2007
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE ON B3254 NEAR RECYCLING CENTRE (NGR SX3219883351)
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE ON B3254 NEAR RECYCLING CENTRE (NGR SX3219883351)

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 ON B3254 NEAR RECYCLING CENTRE (NGR SX3219883351)

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Launceston
National Grid Reference:: SX 32199 83352

Details

LAUNCESTON

660-1/0/10004 Milestone on B3254 near recycling cent 05-JUN-07 re (NGR SX3219883351)

II Late C18 milestone of granite; rectangular in plan with rounded top. Incised lettering to north face: 'L J', where L stands for Launceston and J is one mile.

HISTORY: This is one of a series erected by the Launceston Turnpike Trust to mark its road from Launceston Castle to Trekelland Bridge. The Trust was established in 1760 by an Act of Parliament for `widening and keeping in repair several roads leading to Launceston'.

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 late C18 milestone situated along a former turnpike road, now the B3254, has is of 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. SX3219983352

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Legacy System number:: 503130
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.