Milestone, Crail
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Milestone, Crail by Richard Sutcliffe as part of the Geograph project.
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Milestone, Crail
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe Taken: 24 May 2019
According to Canmore [https://canmore.org.uk/site/305811/crail]: 'This milestone is situated on the SE side of the A917 public road in the SW end of Crail. It comprises a dressed sandstone block measuring 0.39m square by 0.66m in height and it is missing its cast-iron information cap, the E face of which once indicated the distances of 2¾ mile to Kilrenny, 14¼ miles to Largo Pier and 32 miles to Burntisland. The W face indicated the distances of ¼ mile to Crail and 3½ miles to Kingsbarns. There is an Ordnance Survey benchmark on the NE face of the stone'. The stone with its missing cast-iron cap was photographed by the Milestone Society [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6095591], but the cap had been replaced by 2011, when it appears to have been recently painted [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2795327]. It is now showing some rusty areas, and would benefit from another repaint.
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Image Location
Latitude
56.257043
Longitude
-2.631246