MILESTONE ON A30 SLIP ROAD TO LEWANNICK (NGR SX2668881285)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392045
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-2007
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE ON A30 SLIP ROAD TO LEWANNICK (NGR SX2668881285)
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE ON A30 SLIP ROAD TO LEWANNICK (NGR SX2668881285)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392045
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-2007
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE ON A30 SLIP ROAD TO LEWANNICK (NGR SX2668881285)
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE ON A30 SLIP ROAD TO LEWANNICK (NGR SX2668881285)

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 A30 SLIP ROAD TO LEWANNICK (NGR SX2668881285)

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lewannick
National Grid Reference:: SX 26688 81285

Details

LEWANNICK

1684/0/10002 Milestone on A30 slip road to Lewannic 05-JUN-07 k (NGR SX2668881285)

II Early or mid C19 milestone of local granite; monumental in form wth a shallow pointed head. The lettering and numbering are carved into the face of the stone and painted black, the inscription reading LAUNCESTON 5 BODMIN 17.

HISTORY: The milestone was erected by the Bodmin Turnpike trust in the early and mid C19. The original Turnpike route ran from Five Lanes, north on Newhay, via Polyphant to `Holloway Cross' (now Holyway Cross) and had milestones at 14, 15, 16 and 17 miles from Bodmin respectively.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: Milestones are of importance as some of the few physical remains of national and local historic road use. The milestones on this route reflect the standardisation of roads and the introduction of turnpikes to facilitate the transport needs of the increasingly active commercial and industrial landscape of C18 Cornwall. This is one of a number of C19 carved stone milestones to mark the turnpike between Launceston and Bodmin. The milestone remains intact and in its original location. It also has group value with the other milestones on this route.

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Legacy System number:: 503128
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.