Milepost, Wold Newton, North East Lincolnshire
300m North-West of North Farm, Wold Newton, North East Lincolnshire, LN8 6BP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1424839
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Milepost, Wold Newton, North East Lincolnshire
- Statutory Address:
- 300m North-West of North Farm, Wold Newton, North East Lincolnshire, LN8 6BP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1424839
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Milepost, Wold Newton, North East Lincolnshire
- Location Description:
- TF 2411 9738 - within the hedgerow approximately 58m south of the electicity substation on the road running north from Wold Newton towards East Ravendale
- Statutory Address 1:
- 300m North-West of North Farm, Wold Newton, North East Lincolnshire, LN8 6BP
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
- Statutory Address:
- 300m North-West of North Farm, Wold Newton, North East Lincolnshire, LN8 6BP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wold Newton
- National Grid Reference:
- TF2411597387
Summary
Cast-iron milepost dated 1826.
Reasons for Designation
The milepost on the east verge of the unclassified road between Wold Newton and East Ravendale, 300m north of North Farm, Wold Newton, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Intactness: it survives intact in its original position with a legible inscription;
* Historic interest: the milepost is the last tangible remainder of the early-C19 improvements in communication between the agricultural population of the Lincolnshire Wolds and Grimsby and testifies to the development of the road transport network through the turnpike system;
* Architectural interest: unusual form of an early-C19 (1826) cast-iron milepost.
History
During the C18 and C19, turnpike trusts were created in England by local initiatives. Some adjoining trusts coordinated their activities and in some cases, even shared trustees; ensuring that the roads formed an interconnecting network. There was no direction by central government, and most turnpikes operated on a county or even district scale; in many cases, county boundaries defined the limit of responsibility of individual trusts, even though they grew into a national highway network. The milepost at Wold Newton was erected in 1826 and was maintained by the Grimsby and Wold Newton Turnpike Trust. The Trust ran a section of road that was approximately 8 miles, 5 furlongs long, between Grimsby and Wold Newton, with its responsibility of maintenance terminating at the northern end of the Wold Newton village adjacent to North Farm. The milepost is the most southerly one erected by the Trust and is shown in its present position on the Lincolnshire 1:2500 Ordnance Survey map of 1888. It is likely that the milepost has survived, due to it standing alongside of a section of unclassified minor road, whereas the majority of milestones were situated adjacent to sections of the A16 ‘Trunk’ road and the B1203 Market Rasen to Scartho (Grimsby) road; both of which, have been subject to considerable road improvements throughout the C20.
Details
Cast-iron milepost dated 1826
The milepost is situated on the eastern verge of the unclassified road from East Ravendale to Wold Newton. It is a triangular shaft with facetted sides and a cusped top panel. The raised letters of the north-west side read: 'WOLD NEWTON, M 0 F 2’, the south-eastern side reads: 'GRIMSBY, M 8 F 3’, and the cusped top panel reads: ‘LOUTH M 4’. The name of the location of the milepost is identified in raised lettering at the base of each of the facetted sides and reads: ‘WOLD NEWTON’. The rear of the milepost displays the date and the location of the manufacturer of the milepost as ‘Thorncliffe Iron Works 1826'.
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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