Milestone W of Doublebois (NGR SX1957564908) Dobwalls and Trewidland, England

Listed Building Data

Milestone W of Doublebois (NGR SX1957564908) 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
1393197
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
20 November 2008
Name
MILESTONE WEST OF DOUBLEBOIS (NGR SX1957564908)
Location
MILESTONE WEST OF DOUBLEBOIS (NGR SX1957564908), A38
Parish
Dobwalls and Trewidland
District
Cornwall
Grid Reference
SX 19582 64909
Easting
219582.0340
Northing
64909.4390

Listed Building Reasons

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

The milestone west of Doublebois, has been designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: It stands in its original location, and is intact It is a good example of an early C19 milestone, 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

514/0/10025 A38 20-NOV-08 (North side) Milestone West of Doublebois (NGR SX19 57564908)

II Milestone of c.1834. Triangular in plan with a top slightly sloping towards the front. The incised lettering is in Roman capitals with Arabic numerals. The inscription is to two dressed faces, the western face reads 'L 3 ½' and the eastern one `B 9'. The stone was originally painted white with the letters picked out in black, but there are almost no traces of paint remaining.

HISTORY: The Bodmin Turnpike Trust was set up by an Act of Parliament in 1769 to improve the roads into Bodmin. The Trust's original route towards Liskeard was somewhat circuitous and in November 1834 plans were published for a new more direct route through the Glynn Valley. A total of nine milestones were erected along this route and eight of these survive, of which this is one.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION: The milestone west of Doublebois, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: It stands in its original location, and is intact It is a good example of an early C19 milestone, illustrating the standardisation of roads and the introduction of turnpikes to facilitate the transport needs of the increasingly industrial landscape of C19 Cornwall SX1958264909