MILESTONE APPROX 74M SOUTH-WEST OF RESERVOIR

MILESTONE APPROX 74M SOUTH-WEST OF RESERVOIR, OLD A390, NOW BY-PASS

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A mid-C18 milestone. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396160
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-2010
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE APPROX 74M SOUTH-WEST OF RESERVOIR
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE APPROX 74M SOUTH-WEST OF RESERVOIR, OLD A390, NOW BY-PASS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396160
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-2010
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE APPROX 74M SOUTH-WEST OF RESERVOIR
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE APPROX 74M SOUTH-WEST OF RESERVOIR, OLD A390, NOW BY-PASS

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 APPROX 74M SOUTH-WEST OF RESERVOIR, OLD A390, NOW BY-PASS

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Probus
National Grid Reference:: SW 90437 47820

Reasons for Designation

The milestone approx 74m south-west of reservoir, Probus, is designated at Grade II. * Intactness: it is an intact milestone dating from 1754, with lettering, which remains in its original position. * Group Value: it has group value with other milestones along this turnpike route. * Historic Interest: it testifies to the great wave of C18 road improvement, undertaken by Turnpike Trusts.

Details

PROBUS

1146/0/10011 OLD A390, NOW BY-PASS 11-NOV-10 (North side) Milestone approx 74m south-west of res ervoir

II A mid-C18 milestone.

DESCRIPTION: The milestone dates from 1754 and is of stone. It is rectangular in plan, with a cylindrical, rounded top. It stands approximately 0.84m high, and is inscribed with the letters FROM TRURO 6 MILES which are picked out in black paint. The milestone is painted white. There is a partly erased benchmark at the base of the stone, and a bench mark and metal pin at the top.

HISTORY: Historically roads were maintained by the parishes they passed through. Sometimes this proved beyond them, and in 1663 the first turnpike trust (a pike - a billhook-like weapon - was sometime used to bar access down a road; turning it allowed access), was established, empowered to levy tolls towards the upkeep of a particular stretch of road. Initially there were few such trusts, but in the early C18 their number rose steeply; by 1750 most major roads had been turnpiked, and over the rest of the century and into the early C19 over 1000 turnpike trusts were established in all, the last in 1836. Milestones (along with toll houses, and rebuilt bridges and re-engineered sections of the roads themselves) are physical evidence of these trusts' activities.

From the mid-C18 onwards, turnpike trusts were encouraged to provide markers such as milestones and mileposts on the stretches of roads they operated. The Truro Turnpike Trust was established by Act of Parliament in 1754, and this milestone stands on the former turnpike road between Truro to Grampound. The milestone is one of four original stones along this stretch of road. Later, in 1828, the turnpike was diverted, however, the milestones were left in situ. It is marked on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1907.

Reasons for Designation: The milestone approx 74m south-west of reservoir, Probus, is recommended for designation at Grade II. * Intactness: It is an intact milestone dating from 1754, with lettering, which remains in its original position. * Group Value: it has group value with other milestones along this turnpike route. * Historic Interest: it testifies to the great wave of C18 road improvement, undertaken by Turnpike Trusts.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 508361
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.