Milestone NW of Overton End Farm
MILESTONE NW OF OVERTON END FARM, OVERTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392588
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-2008
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone NW of Overton End Farm
- Statutory Address:
- MILESTONE NW OF OVERTON END FARM, OVERTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392588
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-2008
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone NW of Overton End Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILESTONE NW OF OVERTON END FARM, OVERTON 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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MILESTONE NW OF OVERTON END FARM, OVERTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Biddulph
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 89913 61278
Reasons for Designation
* An example of a late C18 milestone, showing the expansion of the road network at a time prior to the 1773 general Turnpike Act, which made recording the mileage compulsory * The milestones on this route reflect the standardisation of roads and the introduction of turnpikes to facilitate the transport needs of the increasingly industrial landscape of C18 Staffordshire * The defacing of the stone in 1940 as a measure to counter invasion is itself significant * Group Value with other milestones along this turnpike road.
Details
BIDDULPH
1915/0/10031 OVERTON ROAD 30-APR-08 Milestone NW of Overton End Farm
II A gritstone milestone of c.1770. It is triangular on plan with ramped corners at either side and this is believed to be a unique feature of milestones in the Biddulph area. Each roadside face reads "To" and "Miles". Ordnance Survey maps show that the stone formerly bore wording recording 9 miles to Macclesfield and 11 miles to Newcastle-under-Lyme which was defaced in 1940 as an official measure in case of invasion.
HISTORY: The milestone was erected by the Tunstall and Bosley Turnpike Trust. It was possibly formerly dated 1770
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION: The milestone at Overton Road, Biddulph Park, Biddulph is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * An example of a late C18 milestone, showing the expansion of the road network at a time prior to the 1773 general Turnpike Act, which made recording the mileage compulsory * The milestones on this route reflect the standardisation of roads and the introduction of turnpikes to facilitate the transport needs of the increasingly industrial landscape of C18 Staffordshire * The defacing of the stone in 1940 as a measure to counter invasion is itself significant * Group Value with other milestones along this turnpike road.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 503343
- 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.
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