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Latitude: 53.0236 / 53°1'25"N
Longitude: -3.5626 / 3°33'45"W
OS Eastings: 295286
OS Northings: 348513
OS Grid: SH952485
Mapcode National: GBR 6F.FK32
Mapcode Global: WH66M.78RC
Plus Code: 9C5R2CFP+FX
Entry Name: Milestone
Listing Date: 17 February 1998
Last Amended: 17 February 1998
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 19340
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300019340
Location: Beside the Holyhead Road, immediately S of the village, opposite the Saracen's Head Hotel.
County: Conwy
Town: Cerrigydrudion
Community: Cerrigydrudion
Community: Cerrigydrudion
Built-Up Area: Cerrigydrudion
Traditional County: Denbighshire
Tagged with: Milestone
Following the Act of Union in 1801, a programme to improve the roads between the two capital cities of London and Dublin was initiated. In 1811 Thomas Telford was commissioned to undertake a survey of the roads between London and Holyhead and in 1817 began work on the northern stretch of the road at Shrewsbury. As well as overseeing the work, Thomas Telford also designed every detail of the road, and this milestone is one of a number designed for it. Milestones between Cernioge and Shrewsbury were erected in the period between 1826 and February 1827.
Dressed Anglesey limestone slab, with shallow triangular head and raking chamfered sides. Cast iron inset plate, white lettering on black reading: HOLY- / HEAD / 57 / CERNIOGE / 3M - 2F / CORWEN / 9M – 6F.
The plate was damaged and becoming detached from the stone, so was temporarily removed by the Highways Agency in 2018, to be reinstated.
Listed as a fine example of one of Telford's milestones retaining its cast iron plate.
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