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Latitude: 52.6997 / 52°41'59"N
Longitude: -3.656 / 3°39'21"W
OS Eastings: 288193
OS Northings: 312627
OS Grid: SH881126
Mapcode National: GBR 9B.2VYL
Mapcode Global: WH683.TD7N
Plus Code: 9C4RM8XV+VJ
Entry Name: Milestone
Listing Date: 4 November 1999
Last Amended: 4 November 1999
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 22581
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300022581
Location: The milestone stands in the grass verge on the N side of the main road, near the access drive to Dugoed Bach farm.
County: Gwynedd
Town: Machynlleth
Community: Mawddwy
Community: Mawddwy
Locality: Cwm Cewydd
Traditional County: Merionethshire
Tagged with: Milestone
The milestone is on a new turnpiked section of the the old Welshpool to Machynlleth road set out in the early C19, and running from the surviving toll house (Tyrpeg) to Penrhiwcul, below the course of the former road.
The milestone is of slate, a flat slab painted white, with a cut inscription reading MACHYNLLETH/ 13 MILES / MALLWYD 1 1/2 / CAN-OFFICE 10 1/2
Included as one of the only two surviving milestones on the new turnpike line of the main arterial road through central Wales, the only one to survive in its entirety.
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