Elaborate Milestone/Obelisk, High Street, Nayland, Suffolk.
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greysman
N 51° 58.291 E 000° 52.446
31U E 353971 N 5760005
This is an elaborate stone mileage obelisk in the High Street of the village of Nayland giving the mileage to important towns.
Waymark Code: WMM00X
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/24/2014
Views: 2
This C18th stone obelisk-milepost has a a moulded pedestal plinth and a ball finial on the truncated shaft. The shaft is inscribed on 3 sides with mileages as follows:-
...on the north (left) face "8 miles to Hadleigh",
...on the west (front) face "55 miles from London, 26 miles from Chelmsford, 22 miles to Bury [St.Edmunds]",
...on the south (right) face "6 miles to Colchester".
It is a Grade II listed monument and has placed immediately adjacent to it a commemorative horse trough commemorating the Coronation of King George V.
Condition: Immaculate
Material: Stone
Inscription:
See main description.
Name of road: High Street, Nayland, Suffolk.
Date placed: Not listed
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