Milestone Adjacent To 'Holme Park' (Ngr Sx3202183794)

This is a later 19th century milestone made of white painted granite, located adjacent to 'Holme Park' on Tresmarrow Road in Launceston. The milestone is rectangular in shape and tapers to a point at the top. The front, edges, and top of the stone have been dressed, and it features black painted incised lettering on the south face that reads: 'LAUNCESTON 1 / BODMIN 21 / CAMELFORD 15'.

The milestone is part of a series erected by the Launceston Turnpike Trust, which was established in 1760 by an Act of Parliament to collect tolls for the maintenance and improvement of roads leading to Launceston. This particular milestone resembles those erected in the eastern part of the county in the later 19th century after the Turnpike Trusts ended, but it also aligns with milestones placed by the Launceston Trust in 1859.

Milestones are significant as they are among the few remaining physical markers of historic road use, illustrating the standardization of roads and the development of turnpikes. This milestone, situated on the original turnpike road west from Launceston, now known as Tresmarrow Road, serves as an important marker of the area's evolving transport history. It also holds group value with other listed milestones along this route.