Month: September 2020
A milestone on an East Riding war memorial
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 …
Boundary stones in and around Clapham
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 …
Handstones: guide-stoops on the North York Moors
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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