Latitude: 50.2939 / 50°17'37"N
Longitude: -4.9692 / 4°58'8"W
OS Eastings: 188615
OS Northings: 47985
OS Grid: SW886479
Mapcode National: GBR ZK.TRXL
Mapcode Global: FRA 08G8.5X1
Plus Code: 9C2Q72VJ+G8
Entry Name: Milestone Immediately in Front of Cottage Wall at Top of Tresowgar Lane
Listing Date: 25 January 2011
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1396425
English Heritage Legacy ID: 508984
ID on this website: 101396425
Location: Cornwall, TR2
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Probus
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Probus
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Milestone
PROBUS
1146/0/10018 B3275
25-JAN-11 Milestone immediately in front of cott
age wall at top of Tresowgar Lane
GV II
A granite guidestone dating from 1830, standing in front of a cottage wall on the pavement, on the east side of the road.
EXTERIOR:
The stone is triangular in plan with a flat top and chamfered edges. It stands at 0.85m high and is 0.55m wide. There are cast iron plates on either front, road-facing side, set flush with the dressed stone. The left is inscribed `TRURO 5 FALMOUTH 15 ½, the right `BODMIN 19 ¼ LONDON 245. The type faces of the two plates are different. The stone and the plates are painted white, with the lettering in black. There is a benchmark carved into the left face beneath the plate.
HISTORY:
In 1754, the first Cornish turnpike was established. The next 10 years saw the establishment of several new Turnpike Trusts in the county, resulting in the construction of new roads and erection of milestones. Under the renewal of the General Turnpike Act in 1828 new roads were commissioned in Cornwall, in order to provide a 'modern' passage from Falmouth to London, with good gradients and surfaces for horse-drawn traffic. The milestone that is the subject of this assessment is one of a series of twelve, eleven of which are extant, beginning in Truro and heading north-east to Fraddon.
In 1835 a new route was constructed which avoided a steep hill, and hence nullified some of the distances on the stones. There are uniform discrepancies in distance on this, and the other milestones in the series, on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map in 1880. The second edition of 1907 shows the correct distances, suggesting the milestones were given new mileage plates sometime between these dates, probably in 1889 when the County Council took on the maintenance of the road.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION:
The milestone immediately in front of cottage wall at top of Tresowgar Lane is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
* Intactness: it is a good example of an early C19 milestone
* Historic interest: it illustrates the development of the road network in Cornwall and further afield
* Group value: it has strong group value with the other ten surviving milestones along the road between Truro and Fraddon
The milestone immediately in front of cottage wall at top of Tresowgar Lane is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
* Intactness: it is a good example of an early C19 milestone
* Historic interest: it illustrates the development of the road network in Cornwall and further afield
* Group value: it has strong group value with the other ten surviving milestones along the road between Truro and Fraddon
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