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A Short History of English Waymarks
History of English Waymarks
William III passed an Act decreeing that in the more remote parts of the kingdom, where two or more paths intersected, local Surveyors were to erect guide stones showing the way to the nearest market town. T he Trinity Hall series of milestones runs 16 miles between Cambridge and the High Street, Barkway, a village south-east of Royston in Hertfordshire on B1638, London Road. The stone is dated 1776 and is inscribed: ‘To Newbury 2 miles Ilsley 7 Abingdon 18 Oxford 24 1776’ and what is possibly an Ordnance Survey benchmark level arrow has been added below.
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