MILEPOST AT ST760641

MILEPOST AT ST760641, WIDCOMBE HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395768
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: MILEPOST AT ST760641
Statutory Address:: MILEPOST AT ST760641, WIDCOMBE HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395768
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: MILEPOST AT ST760641
Statutory Address 1:: MILEPOST AT ST760641, WIDCOMBE HILL

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:: MILEPOST AT ST760641, WIDCOMBE HILL

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

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 75993 64027

Details

WIDCOMBE HILL 656-1/42/1909 (North side) Mile post at ST 760 641

II

Milepost. Late C18 or early C19. Sandstone and cast iron. Tall stone with rounded top, rising approximately 1.5m from pavement level, and approximately 450mm wide, built into boundary wall of adjacent property (not included), and carries square cast iron plate with raised lettering and edging, with inscription: `1 Mile/from the/Guildhall/ BATH', painted in black on white background. Post opposite and approx 20m to east of entrance gates to Crowe Hall (qv), and in good condition, possibly with replaced plate. Presumably erected by the Bath Turnpike Trust. They continued in use for many years and can be seen attached to buildings of the 1860's (see London Road; Lark Place, Upper Bristol Road; and Lower Bristol Road). SOURCES: Bath Archaeological Trust/RCHM England, Georgian Bath Historical Map (1989); Civil Engineering Heritage: Sievewright WJ: Wales and Western England (1986): 20 AVON.

Listing NGR: ST7599364027

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 511179
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.