Milepost W of Gelly Copse Cottage (NGR SX1909764205) St. Pinnock, England

Listed Building Data

Milepost W of Gelly Copse Cottage (NGR SX1909764205) has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1393195
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
20 November 2008
Name
MILEPOST WEST OF GELLY COPSE COTTAGE (NGR SX1909764205)
Location
MILEPOST WEST OF GELLY COPSE COTTAGE (NGR SX1909764205), A390
Parish
St. Pinnock
District
Cornwall
Grid Reference
SX 19101 64205
Easting
219100.9700
Northing
64204.7200

Listed Building Reasons

Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

The milepost approximately 50 meters west of Gelly Copse cottage has been designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: This is an unusual survival of a cast iron milepost in a county where the majority of way markers were fashioned from granite. It is one of a number of cast iron mileposts erected by the Liskeard Turnpike Trust in the 1820s, the only trust to use this material for this purpose. It stands in its original location, and is intact. * It is a good example of an early C19 milepost, illustrating the standardisation of roads and the introduction of turnpikes to facilitate the transport needs of the increasingly industrial landscape of C19 Cornwall.

Listed Building Description

Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

DOBWALLS AND TREWIDLAND

514/0/10024 A390 20-NOV-08 (North side) Milepost west of Gelly Copse Cottage ( NGR SX1909764205)

II Cast iron milepost of c.1820, rectangular post with rounded head. The relief lettering, in Roman capitals, is cast in an arc around the distance. The west face reads LISKEARD 4 ½, the east face reads LOSTWITHIEL 7. The milepost is sited on the north side of the road against a Cornish hedge. It was originally painted white with the lettering picked out in black.

HISTORY: The milepost is one of a series erected by the Liskeard Turnpike Trust which was established by an Act of Parliament in 1769. Between 1823 and 1826 the trust set about improving its route from Liskeard to Plymouth and erected a number of cast iron posts both east and west of Liskeard, this example is one of a series of three to the west of Liskeard. The Liskeard Turnpike Trust was the only one in the county to use cast iron mileposts, and only on this part of its east-west route.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION: The milepost approximately 50 meters west of Gelly Copse cottage is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

  • This is an unusual survival of a cast iron milepost in a county where the majority of way markers were fashioned from granite. It is one of a number of cast iron mileposts erected by the Liskeard Turnpike Trust in the 1820s, the only trust to use this material for this purpose. It stands in its original location, and is intact. It is a good example of an early C19 milepost, illustrating the standardisation of roads and the introduction of turnpikes to facilitate the transport needs of the increasingly industrial landscape of C19 Cornwall. SX1910164205