Milestones, Boundary Markers & Guide Stones

This Foldout collects together information and entries relating to Milestones, Boundary markers, Guide stones, and Guide stoops in the district

Contents:

General Points

Guide stoops were required at all cross-roads by law after 1697

In 1700, local magistrates ordered that they should show the name and distance to the next market town, and that they should be erected on moors and commons

Because of the woollen trade and the practice of putting-out work, many milestones well outside the district show the distance to Halifax, a centre for the local cloth trade

Most of the local milestones are Grade II Scheduled Monuments

Some local milestones

Some local examples are

by the Royal Oak, Halifax on Clare Road
at Sykes Gate Bottom, Blackstone Edge Road, Cragg Vale
at the junction of Towngate & Clifton Common
at White Lee Gardens, Mytholmroyd
east of Little London, Oldham Road, Rishworth
near Ash Grove, Elland Road, Brookfoot
near Duke Street, Todmorden
near Number 21 Lumbutts Lane, Lumbutts
near Number 371 Rochdale Road, Todmorden
near Number 606 Burnley Road, Todmorden
near Number 608 Bacup Road, Todmorden
near Number 774 Rochdale Road, Todmorden
near Number 927 Burnley Road, Todmorden
near Ringstone Royd, Saddleworth Road, Barkisland
near Sandy Clough, Greetland Road, Barkisland
near Sedgley, Cragg Road, Cragg Vale
near Stoney Lea, Saddleworth Road, Barkisland
near the entrance to Scaitcliffe Hall, Todmorden
near Clough Mill, Shelf
near Fallingroyd Bridge, Hebden Bridge
near Hopewell House, Lightcliffe
near Owler Mill, Todmorden
near Rose & Crown, Todmorden
near St George's Church, Sowerby Bridge
near St Luke's Church, Norland
near St Matthew's Church Vicarage, Ogden Lane, Rastrick SE 139216
near Shepherd's Rest, Lumbutts
near Sportsman, Todmorden
near Thorpe Cottage and St John the Divine, Triangle
near Wicken Hill Quarry, Cragg Vale
north-east of Oxygrains Bridge
near Lock Number 19 on the towpath of the Rochdale Canal between Todmorden & Hebble End Bridge
opposite junction Crimsworth Lane / Keighley Road, Pecket Well
opposite Number 100 Elland Road, Brookfoot
opposite Number 19 Park Road, Elland
opposite Number 2 East View, Blackstone Edge Road, Cragg Vale SE 001229
opposite Number 33 Burnley Road, Sowerby Bridge
opposite Number 77 Bacup Road, Todmorden
opposite Rycliffe, Halifax Road, Ripponden
opposite Spring Royd, Luddendenfoot
opposite Ingwood Mill, Stainland
opposite Rishworth School
opposite United Reformed Church, Luddendenfoot
west of Pike Plain, Barkisland

See Clay House, West Vale, Finger post and Mile

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