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 …
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.
The articles that follow on this and successive pages are a random selection, but if you want something more specific, click on the links here or under Categories at the bottom of the page.
Milestones.
Guide stones (or stoops)
Boundary markers
Bridges
Other waymarkers: 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.
RWH / updated June 2020
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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Towler milestones in the West Riding
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 …
Milestones on the roads west out of Halifax
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 …
Mile-posts on the Harrogate to Ripon Road
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 …
Mileposts on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal
The Act of Parliament permitting the construction of a 127-mile canal that would go all the way between Leeds and Liverpool was passed in 1770, …
Hullen Edge boundary stones
Decorated gate-posts with abstract patterns can be found all over Yorkshire, but Abraham Hirst of Elland took this one step further in the middle of …
Milestones and other features on the Calder & Hebble Navigation
An Act of Parliament was passed in 1758 for the building of a navigable waterway to connect Wakefield with Sowerby Bridge. This was ultimately to …
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