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Shibden Hall Road, HALIFAX, HX3 7XA

From here the path goes down alongside the boundary of Cunnery Wood to a kissing gate at Shibden Hall Road.

Carved stone post by the UC road, in parish of HALIFAX (CALDERDALE District), Shibden Hall Road, near Lister's Road, in dry stone wall near overhead power lines and cutting for railway tunnel, on North side of road. Erected by an unknown authority in the 18th century. Inscription reads:- : Bradford / th (?) : : Wakefield / 15 Miles / and ¼ : Milestone Society National ID: YW_WKBF15.

On Shibden Hall Road north east of Halifax this old stone may have been moved from its original location. Both Wakefield and Bradford are inscribed on it and both are to the east. A more logical site would be near what is now the A56/A649/A644 junction in Hipperholme. There was a Wakefield - Halifax turnpike dating from 1741 that would have passed near the present junction in Hipperholme. The face of the stone flush with the wall has Bradford inscribed. The rest is hidden by the top stone of the wall.

This shaft, surrounded by Herras Fencing, is immediately next to Listers Road near to the Shibden Hall Car Park. The warning signs inducate the responsibility of the Coal Authority. Halifax is well outside the areas of the Yorkshire Coalfield mined in the second half of the 20th Century, but there was mining here at the outset of the Industrial Revolution.

Boundary Marker inset in a drystone wall on the north side of Shibden Hall Road, Halifax, about 2 metres west of milestone YW_WKBF15. On the former boundary of Southowram and Northowram townships, both parishes from 1866, but without an inscription the stone's function cannot be defined. Milestone Society National ID: YW_HALI09bm

This milestone has been built into the wall so that one of its two engraved faces is partly obscured. Parallel with the road, it recites a distance to Wakefield. The obscured face gives a distance to Bradford. There is no other engraving despite its location near to what was the Halifax to Wakefield turnpike.

This was presumably at a junction where travellers from Halifax could turn left for Bradford and right for Wakefield. The stone has probably been moved from its original position. Jeffrys's map of 1775 does show this junction, but it is difficult to relate it to the present road layout.

See Image for a close view.

This path has been designed for wheelchairs, and crosses the field in a big curve to lesson the gradient.