Old milestone
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Old milestone
Image: © Chris Minto Taken: 21 May 2023
The milestone is leaning back slightly in front of the wooden fence but it has been in place since 1893/94. The Wakefield to Austerlands turnpike first enacted in 1759 is recorded as being 27.4 miles long. On the West Riding milestones it is 13¼ miles from Wakefield to Huddersfield plus 15 miles to this most westerly milestone ie 28¼. But the route will have changed slightly. On Jeffrey's 1775 map the distance given for Huddersfield to Austerlands is 12 miles and it is known that the early routes followed old packhorse trails.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.547294
Longitude
-2.054745