Village signs
Village signs come in all shapes and sizes. There are the ubiquitous simple road-side notices telling you the name of the community you are entering …
Village signs come in all shapes and sizes. There are the ubiquitous simple road-side notices telling you the name of the community you are entering …
Isaac Watt Boulton was born in 1823 in Stockport, and allegedly related to the more famous Boulton family, Matthew (1728-1809) having manufactured steam engines in …
In Sledmere in the East Riding there are two war memorials, near the church and Sledmere House, home of the Sykes family from the mid-18th …
In the north-west of the old West Riding over a dozen stylistically identical boundary stones can be found, all in an area between Giggleswick and …
The ruling about the need for guide-stones in moorland areas was acted on by the North Riding County Justices in 1711 (eleven years after the …
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While the plates for most of milestones erected for the West Riding County Council in the 1890s were cast at Brayshaw & Booth’s foundry in …
The main road west out of Halifax, King Cross Street, splits in two at King Cross, just over a mile out of the centre. One …
This eleven mile piece of road (now the A61) was originally part of the Harrogate, Hewick, Ripon and Pateley Bridge United Turnpike which was an …