Old milestone
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Old milestone
Image: © Chris Minto Taken: 7 Jul 2019
This old milestone on the B6164 at the north end of Wetherby where the road continues into Kirk Deighton village was in the West Riding prior to the 1970s. It is now on the border of West and North Yorkshire. With the damaged and eroded top half it may have originally been set deeper into the ground as the bottom half still shows much of its original surface. There were two Wetherby and Knaresborough turnpikes. The earliest was enacted in 1759 and the second in 1783. This stone may date from the late 18C.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.942125
Longitude
-1.38877