Boundary Marker Opposite Macauley Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 2010. Boundary marker.

Boundary Marker Opposite Macauley Buildings

WRENN ID: slow-wicket-gold
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Bath and North East Somerset
Country: England
Date first listed: 15 October 2010
Type: Boundary marker
Source: Historic England listing

Description

WIDCOMBE HILL 656-1/57/1903 (North side) Boundary marker opposite Macauley Buildings

Boundary marker. Dated 1827, but date hidden. Cast iron. Canted shaft with hipped top, base partly concealed by later paving, with raised painted inscriptions, to left WIDCOMBE, to right erased, but probably should be Claverton. Running vertically on narrow front facet, BATH TURNPIKE TRUST. HISTORY: one of a series of parish boundary markers erected in 1827 by the Bath Turnpike Trust during the period that John Loudon McAdam was engineer to the trust (1826-1836). Widecombe Hill was an important road link, connecting the city with Bradford and Trowbridge: it s marked as such on Harcourt Masters¿s 1793 map of Bath. SOURCES: Bath Archaeological Trust/RCHM England, Georgian Bath Historical Map (1989); Civil Engineering Heritage, Sievewright WJ: Wales and Western England (1986); 20 AVON.

Listing NGR: ST7647963892

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