Milepost, Wideopen
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1450225
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Milepost, Wideopen
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1450225
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Milepost, Wideopen
- Location Description:
- Milepost immediately to the west of 13 West View, Wideopen, Northumberland, NE13 6EG.
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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 Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ2398773324
Summary
Milepost, probably mid-C19, erected by the Cow-Causey & Buckton Burn Turnpike Trust.
Reasons for Designation
The milepost on the former Great North Road, Wideopen of mid-C19 date, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* Despite the loss of one of the distance plates, the milepost survives close to its original position and has a legible inscription.
Historic interest:
* As testament to the continued wave of road improvement throughout the C19, following the widespread C18 development of turnpike roads.
Group value:
* It forms part of a significant, extended group with 13 other listed milestone along this significant national route.
History
This is one of a series of mileposts erected in the mid-C19 on the Great North Road by the Cow-Causey & Buckton Burn Turnpike Trust. The Great North Road was the principal route between London and Edinburgh and the Cow-Causey & Buckton Burn Turnpike Trust, established in 1747, was the earliest Turnpike Trust to be established in Northumberland. The milepost is not depicted on the first edition Ordnance Survey map published in 1858, but is present on the second edition map published in 1897. On the latter its position is shown slightly to the south of its present location, to which historic mapping shows it was moved between 1961 and 1969. Since it was moved, the milestone has lost the detachable metal plate bearing the figures 8 3/4, denoting the miles from Morpeth. Thirteen similar examples of mileposts along the former Great North Road between Newcastle and Berwick-upon-Tweed have been listed at Grade II.
Details
Milepost, probably mid-C19, erected by the Cow-Causey & Buckton Burn Turnpike Trust.
The milepost is situated on the east side of what is now a B road. The cast-iron milepost has a triangular plan with an open back, and stands about 0.7m high. It is painted white with black figures. The raised legend reads: N (Newcastle) 6 / M (Morpeth); the detachable plate that formerly bore the mileage 8 ¾ is missing.
Sources
Websites
Historic Milestone Society Database, accessed 29-08-2017 from www.msocrepository.co.uk/images/milestone/NORTHUMBERLAND/NB_NCMP06.jpg
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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