Milestone on A343 at NGR 434 596

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1419228
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-2003
List Entry Name:: Milestone on A343 at NGR 434 596
Statutory Address:: Milestone on A343 at NGR 434 596

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1419228
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-2003
List Entry Name:: Milestone on A343 at NGR 434 596
Statutory Address 1:: Milestone on A343 at NGR 434 596

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:: Milestone on A343 at NGR 434 596

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
Parish:: Highclere
National Grid Reference:: SU4340759625

Details

SU43405961 186/0/10037

HIGHCLERE, Milestone on A343 at NGR 434 596

II

Milestone. Late C18. Painted stone. Broached square base, cylindrical shaft and polygonal top. Inscribed: Sarum 27, Newbury 5 and Andover 10. The Andover and Chilton Pond turnpike was opened in 1766 and this is one of a series of similar milestones on the turnpike. An unusual example of a late C18 milestone.

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Legal

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