Old Guide Stone, A6024, Woodhead Road, Holme
Introduction
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Old Guide Stone, A6024, Woodhead Road, Holme
Image: © David Garside Taken: 27 Mar 2012
The guide stone is on the corner of the Sunday school building at the junction of Woodhead Road and Field Head Lane, see https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6042953 for a close up view. It can be clearly dated from a plaque on the school recording the rebuilding of the school by public subscription dated 1838, see https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6756321 The inscription reads: {left hand} To MELTHAM : To HOLMFIRTH {right hand} / {left hand} To WOODHEAD Milestone Society National ID: YW_XHOLME
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Image Location
Latitude
53.550315
Longitude
-1.837561