Old milestone
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Old milestone
Image: © Chris Minto Taken: 16 Jul 2023
This Grid square has two TO and FROM milestones in it. This stone is on the A629 Edgerton Road and is almost opposite Luther Place. At 1 mile from the town centre this was the first milestone set up on this route out of Huddersfield by the Town Watch Committee in the late 19C to regulate Hansom Cab Fare-stages. Further stones were set at ½ mile intervals to the town boundary. Left face - TO/HUDDERSFIELD/1/MILE. Right face - FROM/HUDDERSFIELD/1 MILE. This stone has also been used by the OS as there is a cut benchmarck on the bevel
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Image Location
Latitude
53.654732
Longitude
-1.801604