Milestone (NGR SX0989765564)
MILESTONE (NGR SX0989765564), A38
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393198
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-2008
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone (NGR SX0989765564)
- Statutory Address:
- MILESTONE (NGR SX0989765564), A38
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393198
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-2008
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone (NGR SX0989765564)
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILESTONE (NGR SX0989765564), A38
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 (NGR SX0989765564), A38
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cardinham
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 09901 65566
Reasons for Designation
The milestone on the A38 at (NGR SX0989765564) has been designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is one of a number of milestones erected by the Bodmin Turnpike Trust in 1834. * It stands in its original location, and is intact. * It is a good example of an early C19 milestone, illustrating the standardisation of roads and the introduction of turnpikes to facilitate the transport needs of the increasingly industrial landscape of C19 Cornwall.
Details
CARDINHAM
1557/0/10003 A38 20-NOV-08 Milestone (NGR SX0989765564)
GV II
The milestone, c1834, is triangular in plan with two dressed faces and a flat faintly sloping top. It stands approximately 60cm high. Large deeply incised lettering on two faces gives the distance to Bodmin and Liskeard; there is slight damage to front corner.
The inscription reads:left face: L 10 1/2; right face: / B 2'. A later bench mark has been inscribed on the left face above the L.
HISTORY The milestone is one of a series erected by the Bodmin Turnpike Trust which was established by an Act of Parliament in 1769. In 1834 the Trust set about improving its route from Bodmin to Liskeard and erected a number of milestones over the new nine mile route along the Glyn valley; this example is one of a series of eight.
The milestone on the A38 at (NGR SX0989765564) is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* It is one of a number of milestones erected by the Bodmin Turnpike Trust in 1834. * It stands in its original location, and is intact. * It is a good example of an early C19 milestone, illustrating the standardisation of roads and the introduction of turnpikes to facilitate the transport needs of the increasingly industrial landscape of C19 Cornwall. SX0990165566
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 504618
- 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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