MILEPOST 350 METRES SOUTH EAST OF JUNCTION OF WIGAN LANE AND RAWLINSON LANE

MILEPOST 350 METRES SOUTH EAST OF JUNCTION OF WIGAN LANE AND RAWLINSON LANE, WIGAN LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386811
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1999
List Entry Name:: MILEPOST 350 METRES SOUTH EAST OF JUNCTION OF WIGAN LANE AND RAWLINSON LANE
Statutory Address:: MILEPOST 350 METRES SOUTH EAST OF JUNCTION OF WIGAN LANE AND RAWLINSON LANE, WIGAN LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386811
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1999
List Entry Name:: MILEPOST 350 METRES SOUTH EAST OF JUNCTION OF WIGAN LANE AND RAWLINSON LANE
Statutory Address 1:: MILEPOST 350 METRES SOUTH EAST OF JUNCTION OF WIGAN LANE AND RAWLINSON LANE, WIGAN LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MILEPOST 350 METRES SOUTH EAST OF JUNCTION OF WIGAN LANE AND RAWLINSON LANE, WIGAN LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:: Heath Charnock
National Grid Reference:: SD 59127 14524

Details

SD 51 SE CHORLEY WIGAN LANE

96/8/10005 Milepost 350 metres south east of junction of Wigan Lane and Rawlinson Lane II

Milepost. Dated 1837. Cast iron milepost of elaborate design, comprising a rectangular panel with segmental head carrying a crest with ball finials. The panel rises from a wide stem, standing upon a low fluted pillar. The segmental head bears the inscription 'DUXBURY' and below, the main inscription to the panel reads '6 MILES TO WIGAN - 21/4 MILES TO CHORLEY 1837' An inscription on the stem reads 'HAIGH FOUNDRY'.

Listing NGR: SD5912714524

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Legacy System number:: 474220
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.