Milestone at Roseworthy Hill on former A30

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Milestone of mid-C19 date. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1410449
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-2012
List Entry Name:: Milestone at Roseworthy Hill on former A30

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1410449
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-2012
List Entry Name:: Milestone at Roseworthy Hill on former A30
Location Description:: Milestone at Roseworthy Hill on the former A30. The milestone is on the southern side of the road, set into the hedge bank, 415m east by south east of Little Connerton. SW6086139412

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

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Gwinear-Gwithian
National Grid Reference:: SW6086339411

Summary

Milestone of mid-C19 date.

Reasons for Designation

The milestone situated on the southern side of an unclassified road (former A30), set into the hedge bank, 415m east by south east of Little Connerton, was erected c1839 is listed at Grade II for the following reasons:

* Intactness: as an intact milestone associated with the Redruth to Hayle turnpike (1839) which remains in its original position; * Historic Interest: the milestone was erected when there was an increase in freight traffic associated with the growing mining industry in the area; * Group Value: it forms a group with other surviving milestones along the Redruth to Hayle turnpike.

History

The opening of the Hayle Causeway in 1825 brought about a desire to develop new turnpike to link Redruth with Hayle to improve transport and trading opportunities for the mines in the area. An Act (“Vc.12) enabling the construction of a turnpike along the route was passed on 14th May 1839 and toll gates were advertised for letting the following year. Carved granite milestones were erected along the turnpike from Redruth, through Camborne to the Hayle Causeway, and thence to Penzance along the current route of the A30. All of these milestones were of a similar size and style, with lettering cut flush into the face of the stone. Over the years, these stones have suffered some attritional damage requiring the turnpike trust to re-inscribe the lettering.

Details

A dressed and painted mid C19 (c1839) granite milestone adjacent to an unclassified road (former A30), set on the southern side within the hedge bank, 415m east by south east of Little Connerton. The base of the milestone is buried within the hedge bank. A triangular shaft with a broken pyramidal cap stands out from the hedge bank. The panels are incised with 38mm (1½ inch) high letters in sans serif capitol script. The eastern panel carries the inscription HAYLE 3 MILES PENZANCE 11 LANDS END 21 , and the western panel is inscribed CAMBORNE 3 MILES REDRUTH 6 TRURO 15. The triangular shaft has suffered some wear to the arrises, it is painted white and the inscribed letters are picked out in black, the ‘C’ of Camborne having to be re-inscribed on the worn face of the front arris.

The milestone is marked in its current position on the Ordnance Survey 1:10560 map of 1888.

Sources

Books and journals
Beasley, H, The Route book of Cornwall - A Guide for the Stranger and Tourist , (1854)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.