The Kirkburton Parish Walks guide-stoops
The Kirkburton Parish Council area was established as an Urban District in 1937, combining eight (originally nine) townships to the east of Huddersfield. Within the …
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
Bridge markers
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
Roads heritage of the East Riding
The East Riding of Yorkshire is the smallest of the three Ridings and, unless you live there, a bit off the beaten track. It is, …
Helme Ecclesiastical District boundary stones
Helme is a small village in Meltham township, five miles southwest of Huddersfield. It was one of the earliest churches to be announced in the …
Thorpe St John Chapelry boundary stones
There are several Thorpes in Yorkshire, but this is about one on the road between Triangle and Ripponden near Halifax. It’s not really a place, …
Spur-stones: nothing to do with milestones
Spur-stones have nothing to do with milestones or the Milestone Society, but they can cause confusion. So I thought it useful to mention them here. …
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 …
IWB: 19th century engineer and graffitist
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 …
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 …