Milestone on Banbury Road, Kidlington
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1421245
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-2014
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone on Banbury Road, Kidlington
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1421245
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-2014
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone on Banbury Road, Kidlington
- Location Description:
- Milestone by entrance to public footpath between 118 and 120 Banbury Road, Kidlington, Oxfordshire
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kidlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP4854614638
Summary
Milestone, of probable later C18 date, associated with the Kidlington & Deddington Turnpike Trust.
Reasons for Designation
The milestone on Banbury Road, Kidlington, of probable later C18 date, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Intactness: it survives intact in its original position with a mostly legible inscription;
* Historical interest: it testifies to the development of the road transport network through the turnpike system;
* Group value: forms an extended group with the other surviving milestone along this turnpike route (National Heritage List for England number 1369696).
History
The Kidlington & Deddington Turnpike Trust was established in 1755 by Act of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the Oxford to Banbury route. In addition to installing stone milestones along the route, the Trust erected a tollhouse south of Deddington and a toll gate, known as Old Man's Gate, at Water Eaton. These were rebuilt in stone in the early C19 and are both listed at grade II. The Trust was dissolved in 1875. The present milestone is marked in its present position on the first edition Ordnance Survey of 1876 and subsequent editions.
Details
This milestone, of probable later C18 date, is situated between 118 and 120 Banbury Road, Kidlington. It is located on the east side of the road at the entrance to a public footpath. The milestone is approximately 0.6m high, of worked stone with a rounded top, and bears the inscription ‘OXFORD / [5] / BANBURY / 17’. The Oxford mileage is now illegible but the first edition Ordnance Survey map confirms that it originally read ‘5’.
Sources
Websites
‘Oxford Turnpike Roads’ (1994), accessed from http://www.turnpikes.org.uk/rutv8%20Oxford%20turnpike%20Roads.htm
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
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