Milestone At Top Of Lord'S Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1986. Milestone.

Milestone At Top Of Lord'S Hill

WRENN ID: open-lime-crimson
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Wiltshire
Country: England
Date first listed: 1 July 1986
Type: Milestone
Source: Historic England listing

Description

LONGBRIDGE DEVERILL SHAFTESBURY ROAD ST 83 NE (west side) 3/202 Milestone at top of Lord's Hill

GV II

Milestone. 1840. Cast-iron pillar with classical pedimented top and plinth, lettering in relief: WARMINSTER/5/MILES/SHAFTESBURY /10/MILES, Initials C & M/W 1840 on plinth, representing the Warminster firm of ironfounders, Carson and Miller. Part of the radial turnpike system established around Warminster in 1726, a series of cast-iron milestones were produced c1840, coinciding with a consolidation of the Turnpike Act. (R. Haynes, Wiltshire Milestones: Leisure in Wiltshire, 1968.)

Listing NGR: ST8883338325

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