Eight miles from Hyde Park Corner
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Eight miles from Hyde Park Corner
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 9 Jul 2010
This milestone is on Kew Road in the centre of Richmond. I presume the route is measured via Kew Bridge (which comes out at 8.1 miles on a modern map), rather than Chiswick Bridge (shorter, at 7.5 miles). The distance (8) is given in Roman numerals VIII.
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