Latitude: 52.9311 / 52°55'51"N
Longitude: -3.0564 / 3°3'23"W
OS Eastings: 329086
OS Northings: 337595
OS Grid: SJ290375
Mapcode National: GBR 73.M838
Mapcode Global: WH89J.0LVB
Plus Code: 9C4RWWJV+CC
Entry Name: Milestone
Listing Date: 29 July 1998
Last Amended: 29 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 20212
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300020212
Location: The milestone is set against a wall at the rounded corner between the Holyhead Road and Castle Road, opposite the church.
County: Wrexham
Town: Wrexham
Community: Chirk (Y Waun)
Community: Chirk
Built-Up Area: Chirk
Traditional County: Denbighshire
Tagged with: Milestone
The plate states it was placed in position by Wrexham District Council in 1894. The stone may be earlier and one of the various earlier series of turnpike milestones on the Holyhead Road.
A silicaceous stone with a rounded top and bearing a cast iron plate inscribed with raised lettering reading WREXHAM DISTRICT 1894 DCC, and below:
M F
WREXHAM 10 2
CHIRK
GLYN 6 8
LLANARMON D C 11 1
Included as a milestone of interest as it bears a plate of late C19 date giving the mileage in miles and furlongs.
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