IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Newcastle Road, LEEK, ST13 7AA
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Newcastle Road, ST13 7AA by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (20 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
2
Winter Giraffe, A53 Leek
With Its winter gear on..
Image: © Brian Deegan
Taken: 17 Dec 2022
0.04 miles
3
The clubhouse
Looking from the bank of the feeder canal, this is the Westwood Golf course clubhouse. For more information visit their website at http://www.westwoodgolfclubleek.co.uk/ .
Image: © Jonathan Kington
Taken: 6 Apr 2011
0.10 miles
5
Bus stop on A53 in valley of the Churnet
On the left is a track to Wall Grange Farm
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 1 Sep 2017
0.17 miles
6
Old Milepost by the A53, Newcastle Road, Ladderidge
Cast iron post by the A53, in parish of Leek (Staffordshire Moorlands District), Newcastle Road, Ladderidge, beside canal feeder (Wall Bridge), on the verge by hedge, on West side of road. Hales iron casting, erected by the Newcastle under Lyme & Leek turnpike trust in the 19th century.
Inscription reads:-
: LEEK / 1 / MILE : : NEWCASTLE / 10½ MILES / BURSLEM / 8½ MILES :
Maker:-
: HALES / COBRIDGE / 1879 :
Grade II listed.
List Entry Number: 1268585 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1268585
Milestone Society National ID: ST_LKNC01
Image: © J Higgins
Taken: 1 Jan 2000
0.17 miles
7
Milepost on Ladderedge
This Grade II Listed ( http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-461670-mile-post-at-ngr-sj-973-551-leek ) milepost is at the bottom of Ladderedge Bank on the A53 Newcastle Road out of Leek, the stone to the right gives information about local walks. Behind can be seen the Feeder Canal coming from Rudyard Lake to the Leek Branch of the Caldon Canal.
Although milestones and mileposts have been around in Britain since the Romans started building roads here, it wasn’t until the Turnpike Act of 1766 that they became compulsory on the turnpike roads which were built under Government licence by private companies who used the money raised by tolls to maintain them. Prior to the Act milestones were only occasionally erected, usually as a charitable act to reassure travellers that they were on the right road or for commemorative reasons. There are still quite a few of the Turnpike Act milestones in existence, normally they are 2-3 feet high and have the initial letter or an abbreviation of the nearest market town marked on two faces with the distance from it.
Image: © Jonathan Kington
Taken: 6 Apr 2011
0.17 miles
8
Mile Marker (1879) A53 and Staffs Way
The Canal feeder running besides the Staffordshire Way and the Mile marker on the A53.
Image: © Brian Deegan
Taken: 27 Feb 2021
0.18 miles
9
Caldon Canal feeder channel
Bringing water from the Rudyard Reservoir to the canal basin south of Leek.
Image: © David Martin
Taken: 6 Aug 2022
0.18 miles
