Sowerby Ramble boundary markers
The Sowerby Ramble is not one of the Milestone Society’s Heritage Walks, though perhaps it could be. Rather it was a peculiar sub-district of Sowerby …
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
East Riding mounting-block milestones
The turnpike age arrived in the East Riding in 1744 with a toll-road connecting Hull and Beverley and over the next 50 years others followed, …
B&Bs? Or should we call them Steads?
On nearly 70 roads all over the former West Riding of Yorkshire nearly 400 milestones can be found in a standard style. Attached to a …
Guide-stones between Otley and Leeds
As well as the turnpike milestones on the road to Otley, another set of stones on the same road is extremely interesting and unique in …
Teesdale Way parish boundary markers
The River Tees was the traditional boundary between the North Riding of Yorkshire and County Durham. Local government boundaries in the 20th century have changed …
Boundary disputes
Disputes over boundaries range from the international down to the local – from the arguments that racked Latin America following independence in the 19th century …
Perambulation of Stanbury, 1805
Stanbury is a township in Haworth Chapelry in the Parish of Keighley. To the west is Lancashire, and its Yorkshire boundaries are with Oakworth on …
Roman milestones
Roman milestones were generally stone pillars with Latin inscriptions erected when a road was first constructed or when it was repaired. The inscriptions usually give …
Foiling invaders: waymarkers at war
In 1939, with war looming, an Emergency Powers (Defence) Act was passed enabling the government to make orders as the need arose for the defence …
Highways Acts: a brief summary
The first Act of Parliament relating to roads was in 1555, and they have followed thick and fast ever since. This is a brief list …