Old milestone
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Old milestone
Image: © Chris Minto Taken: 14 Aug 2022
This 1893/94 West Riding CC milestone was set up on the A1 Great North Road, north of Doncaster at SE524094, Red House. When the A1(M) Doncaster by-pass was constructed in 1960 the road level was altered and this stone was lying by the old road now a path. A local rescued it and set it in his front garden in Woodlands for a number of years. Early 2000s, it was sold to someone in York and displayed outside his house there. When he sold the house he gave the milestone to a friend at Whitewall south of Norton. It is now safe in that garden. It is set with the Leeds mileage, 22½ Miles and Pontefract, 9¼ Miles under soil level.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.119616
Longitude
-0.791769