About Milestones and Waymarkers

We use the term waymarker to cover a wide variety of different stones, posts,, plates and signs generally that tell the traveller where he or she is, or is going to, or which direction to follow when a choice of routes presents itself.
To find out more click on the links here, which will take you to a list of articles on each topic.

Milestones.

Guide stones (or stoops)

Boundary markers

Bridge markers

Canal mile-markers

Other wayside features, stones and finger-posts: many other stones and posts can be found on our roadsides and elsewhere.

Roads and travel: there are also some more general articles here on road history, as well as a few items on the Conservation of milestones and waymarkers.

RWH / updated June 2020

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