Guidestone 400m NE of Tregooden is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 October 2010. A C18 Guidestone.

Guidestone 400m NE of Tregooden

WRENN ID
night-portal-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 October 2010
Type
Guidestone
Address
Guidestone 400m NE of Tregooden, B3266, St. Tudy
OS grid reference
SX 072 759
Coordinates
50.55138, -4.72164
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The guidestone located 400 meters northeast of Tregooden is a Grade II listed structure dating from the early 18th century. It stands in its original position, near a later listed milestone. The guidestone features a 1.83-meter high ovoid granite pillar topped with a 0.20-meter thick capstone. Each of the four faces of the capstone is deeply incised in Roman capitals with the names of various Cornish places. One face is inscribed "LISKD" for Liskeard, another reads "CAMELFO," which has been damaged and would have originally read Camelford. A third face now reads "TUDY," originally "ST TUDY," and the final face is inscribed "BODMIN."

Historically, in 1697, Acts of Parliament authorized Justices in Highway Sessions to require surveyors of highways to erect direction stones or posts at crossroads. This guidestone is part of a distinctive group of early 18th-century guidestones with capstones along the roads connecting Bodmin and Camelford.

The guidestone is designated at Grade II for several reasons: it is a notable example of an unusual type of early 18th-century guidestone, it remains in its original location, it retains most of its original inscription, and it has group value with other stones in the series.

Local climate

Guidestone 400m NE of Tregooden sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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