Milestone, Heads Bank, Aysgarth
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1425905
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone, Heads Bank, Aysgarth
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1425905
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone, Heads Bank, Aysgarth
- Location Description:
- The milestone is located on the north verge boundary of the A684 approximately 250 metres east of the Junction with Wesholme Bank and 600 metres east of the Aysgarth Falls junction
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.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aysgarth
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SE0173088426
Summary
Cast-iron milestone, late-C19, triangular in plan
Reasons for Designation
The milestone at Heads Bank, Aysgarth is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Intactness: the milestone is believed to survive in its original location and its lettering remains clearly legible
* Design interest: it incorporates a hand on each inscribed face pointing in the direction of travel
* Historic interest: it is an important physical reminder of an age of pre-motorised transport in the Yorkshire Dales, and, in a wider context, the development of England's transport network
* Group value: it has strong group value with the other listed milestones located along the A684
History
The milestone at Heads Bank, Aysgarth was erected in the late-C19 following the reorganisation of highways authorities under the Local Government Act of 1888.
Details
The milestone is constructed of cast iron, painted white, and is triangular in plan. On the left face is a relief of a hand pointing right above relief lettering reading 'LEYBURN 7 MILES', and on the right face is a relief of a hand pointing left above relief lettering reading 'HAWES 10 MILES'. Both the hands and lettering are painted black.
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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