Old milestone
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Old milestone
Image: © Chris Minto Taken: 21 May 2023
This shows the rhs of the milestone/stoop on Mill Bank Road. To/Honley/2½ Miles. Towards the end of the 17C , Justices of the Peace ordered that milestones/guidestones should be set up. In most cases this didn't happen until the first quarter of the 18C. In the north of England they are called stoops which is Scandanavian for stone. This stone is mentioned in 'Huddersfield Highways Down the Ages' by WB Crump, published in 1949.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.588463
Longitude
-1.845119