Latitude: 52.8962 / 52°53'46"N
Longitude: -3.9178 / 3°55'4"W
OS Eastings: 271085
OS Northings: 334921
OS Grid: SH710349
Mapcode National: GBR 5Z.PNS4
Mapcode Global: WH55W.SGKJ
Plus Code: 9C4RV3WJ+FV
Entry Name: Milepost by Fron-oleu
Listing Date: 27 February 2004
Last Amended: 27 February 2004
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 82538
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300082538
Location: Set alongside the E side of the A470 S of Fron-oleu; to S of the village of Trawsfynydd
County: Gwynedd
Community: Trawsfynydd
Community: Trawsfynydd
Traditional County: Merionethshire
Tagged with: Milestone
Probably mid C19 milepost. Merioneth was the last of the Welsh counties to have turnpike roads and it was at a county meeting in Dolgellau in 1775 that it was resolved to convert the principal tracks of the county into turnpikes, in partnership with Caernarfonshire. By the end of the C18 most of the existing roads had been brought under the Trust under the Merioneth Turnpike Act of 1777 and the line of the modern road from Maentwrog to Dolgellau more or less follows the line of the early turnpike and was certainly in place by the time of the Tithe Map of the parish, 1849.
Cast iron milepost with a triangular profile, wider at the top with a raking head and facing panels which bear the names and distances: DOLGELLEY / 12 on the left hand face and TRAWSFYNYDD on the right.
Included as a well preserved C19 milepost, one of a series along the A470.
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