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Milestone K3 on highway B660 at TL0869372088

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A milestone dating from the mid-C18 on the B660. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1454155
Date first listed:: 09-Oct-2018
List Entry Name:: Milestone K3 on highway B660 at TL0869372088

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1454155
Date first listed:: 09-Oct-2018
List Entry Name:: Milestone K3 on highway B660 at TL0869372088
Location Description:: Milestone K3: located on Station Road (B660) at TL0869372088

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Catworth
National Grid Reference:: TL0869372088

Summary

A milestone dating from the mid-C18 on the B660.

Reasons for Designation

Milestone K3 on the B660 dating to the mid-C18 is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* it is a good example of an C18 milestone of simple but pleasing functional design.

Historic interest:

* as an illustration of the development of the transport network in England at this date.

Group value:

* the stone forms a strong group with other milestones along the route on the B660 and B645 in Huntingdonshire.

History

Milestones are one of the most widespread forms of street furniture. They became prevalent in the mid-C18, when Turnpike Trusts were encouraged to provide such markers. Prior to the development of the turnpike road network and the proliferation of Turnpike Trusts, the King’s Highway was the primary road network in England, beginning in the late C17 but becoming far more profuse form the 1750s onwards. The turnpike roads were maintained by the trusts with revenue gained from tolls to road users. According to the Milestone Society ‘From 1767, mileposts were compulsory on all turnpikes, not only to inform travellers of direction and distances, but to help coaches keep to schedule and for charging for changes of horses at the coaching inns.’

This milestone dates to the mid-C18. It forms part of the Great Staughton to Catworth turnpike, via Kimbolton which now forms part of the B660 and joined the Great North Road at Crosshall. This road was established by Act of Parliament given Royal Assent in 1755 under George II. There are other listed milestones on the route (see List entries 1210941; 1210883; 1211227; 1214549; 1214550).

Details

A milestone on the B660 dating to 1754-1758.

MATERIALS: oolitic limestone.

DESCRIPTION: tall narrow roughly hewn stone, formerly limewashed and inscribed TO KIMBOLTON 3 MILES.

Sources

Websites
Milestones and Waymakers, accessed 10 November 2017 from http://www.milestonesociety.co.uk/aboutmilestones.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.