Milestone At Junction With Westbury Road

Chapmanslade BATH ROAD (east side) 7/46 Milestone at junction with Westbury Road the description shall be amended as follows: Milepost. c.1834. Cast iron classical style pillar with weathered and moulded top, raised lettering reads BATH/14/WARMINSTER/3. Mid C18 stone milepost (presumably 1751-2) retained at rear. This road from Warminster to Bath originally turnpiked 1851-2 and consolidated by the Black Dog Trust in 1834 when a new road was made from Woolverton to Bathampton when the old milestones were replaced by these iron ones made by Carson and Miller, a Warminster firm of ironfounders. William McAdam was engineer to the Trust. The post was moved to its present position when the A36/A3098 junction was reconstructed. (VCH, Wiltshire, vol.l 4 1959; R Haynes, Wiltshire Milestones 1968).

CHAPMANSLADE BATH ROAD ST 84 NW (east side) 7/46 Milestone at junction with Westbury Road GV II Milepost. 1840. Cast iron classical-style pillar with weathered and moulded top, raised lettering reads BATH / 14 / WARMINSTER / 3. C18 stone milestone retained against rear. One of a series of cast iron mileposts on roads radiating from Warminster, originally turnpiked 1726-27 and consolidated c1840 when most milestones replaced in cast iron, made by Carson and Miller, a Warminster firm of ironfounders. (VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 4 1959; R. Haynes, Wiltshire Milestones, 1968)

Listing NGR: ST8350748237