Milestone at Roseworthy Hill on former A30

A dressed and painted mid C19 (c1839) granite milestone adjacent to an unclassified road (former A30), set on the southern side within the hedge bank, 415m east by south east of Little Connerton. The base of the milestone is buried within the hedge bank. A triangular shaft with a broken pyramidal cap stands out from the hedge bank. The panels are incised with 38mm (1½ inch) high letters in sans serif capitol script. The eastern panel carries the inscription HAYLE 3 MILES PENZANCE 11 LANDS END 21 , and the western panel is inscribed CAMBORNE 3 MILES REDRUTH 6 TRURO 15. The triangular shaft has suffered some wear to the arrises, it is painted white and the inscribed letters are picked out in black, the ‘C’ of Camborne having to be re-inscribed on the worn face of the front arris.

The milestone is marked in its current position on the Ordnance Survey 1:10560 map of 1888.