MILESTONE AT BLISLAND JUNCTION

MILESTONE AT BLISLAND JUNCTION, A30

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Overview

A milestone, dating from c1769, in stone. The milestone is rectangular with a cambered head, and stands approximately 1m high. The milestone is inscribed with seriphs: Blisland/2/B/3; the lettering is picked out in black paint. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394411
Date first listed:: 01-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE AT BLISLAND JUNCTION
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE AT BLISLAND JUNCTION, A30

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394411
Date first listed:: 01-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE AT BLISLAND JUNCTION
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE AT BLISLAND JUNCTION, A30

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MILESTONE AT BLISLAND JUNCTION, A30

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 10304 70462

Reasons for Designation

The milestone at Blisland Junction is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * An intact milestone dating from the C18, which remains in its original position. * Group value with the other listed milestones along the turnpike route.

Details

CARDINHAM

1557/0/10008 A30 01-OCT-10 Milestone at Blisland Junction

GV II A milestone, dating from c1769, in stone. The milestone is rectangular with a cambered head, and stands approximately 1m high. The milestone is inscribed with seriphs: Blisland/2/B/3; the lettering is picked out in black paint.

HISTORY The milestone stands at a junction on the former main route between Bodmin and Launceston. The 1769 Act of Parliament that set up the Bodmin Turnpike Trust (9 Geo III, c. 59 (local and personal)) required milestones and direction posts to be erected along the road. The milestone is of a standard shape commonly employed by the Bodmin Turnpike Trust at that time. The route was later improved to avoid the steep gradient out of Bodmin at Castle Street, and a later triangular three-mile stone can be found about half a mile away on the re-aligned section. The earlier milestone survived in situ and is marked on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map of 1880.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The milestone at Blisland Junction, is recommended for listing at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * An intact milestone dating from the C18, which remains in its original position. * Group value with the other listed milestones along the turnpike route.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 507022
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.