Milestone celebration for the village of Bancyfelin


On Tuesday, 9 September 2014 at 4pm, Bancyfelin village will be celebrating its new milestone.
On the day, Bruce Wallace will be there to unveil the new milestone which is located in the grass bank at the front of Bancyfelin Primary School.
He will be joined by the Bancyfelin Education Community Trust trustees who raised the funds for the project and the donors who made the project possible.
Everyone in the village is also invited to join in the celebration.
In May, the Bancyfelin Education Community Trust responded to a local suggestion that the milestone be replaced and as a result, a generous grant was made available through the Carmarthenshire Landscape and Heritage Grants Scheme.
The original milestone, which was similar to others on the main A40 highway from Carmarthen to Hobb’s Point, was located on the school wall.
Reference to the original milestone, with distances marked, can be found on older maps of the village.
When the front of the school was re-modelled years ago, the original milestone was lost and never replaced. In days past, the coachmen would use the milestones to read direction and distances, help coaches keep to journey times, help calculate fees for changes of horses at the coaching inns and before 1840, calculate postal charges.
The Carmarthenshire Landscape and Heritage Grants Scheme is part funded by Natural Resources Wales, Rural Development Plan, Welsh Government, Carmarthenshire County Council and in kind by the National Trust.
Heritage Grants Officer, Emyr Price said “Milestones are interesting and historic features in our environment and are definitely worth preserving. Bancyfelin can be justly proud of its new replica milestone as it brings the history of the village to life”.
The milestone plaques were produced by MB Fine Arts, Clynderwen and installed by Dorian Davies of Backe, St Clears.
The Bancyfelin Education Community Trust serves the village community by raising funds for projects
which add to the quality of life in Bancyfelin and the area.
It welcomes constructive suggestions for village enhancement from all sections of the community.

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