Milestone on southside of the A31 NE of Bere Regis
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1429658
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone on southside of the A31 NE of Bere Regis
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1429658
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-2015
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone on southside of the A31 NE of Bere Regis
- Location Description:
- Milestone is located on the A31 approx 1 mile NE of Bere Regis - 10 miles from Wimborne, 12 miles from Wareham
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:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bere Regis
- National Grid Reference:
- SY8606496261
Summary
A mid-C19 milestone on the A31 north east of Bere Regis, erected for the Puddletown and Wimborne Turnpike Trust.
Reasons for Designation
The milestone on the A31 north-east of Bere Regis, Dorset is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Intactness: an intact milestone dating from the mid-C19 which remains in its original position;
* Group value: with the other listed milestones along the Puddletown to Wimborne turnpike route.
History
The milestone stands on the present A31 road from Dorchester to Wimborne, along the line of the Puddletown and Wimborne turnpike road laid out in 1840 by the Dorset road engineer Charles Jetsy. The Puddletown and Wimborne Turnpike Trust was founded in 1840 and by 1847-8 the Trust had created 24 miles of road and five toll-gates in Dorset. It expired on 1 November 1873. In the late C19 cast iron plaques with the distances were screwed onto the milestones along the Puddletown and Wimborne route superseding the earlier inscriptions.
Details
A mid-C19 milestone on the A31 north east of Bere Regis, erected for the Puddletown and Wimborne Turnpike Trust (1840-1873).
The milestone is rectangular on plan with a rounded top and inscribed with black painted lettering reading 'Dorchester 12, Wimborne 10'.
Three screw holes to the front indicate that the milestone previously had a cast iron plaque attached to it, added in the late C19 like the other milestones. This has been lost but the original lettering survived underneath.
Sources
Books and journals
Good, R, The Old Roads of Dorset, (1966), 147-148
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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