SUSTRANS Millennium Milestone – Salterforth, England - Milestones on Waymarking.com

The arms of the sign are pointing to Colne and Burnley in the South and Barnoldswick and Gargrave in the North.

SUSTRANS is an organisation that promotes the use of cycles as a green form of transport. A national network of cycle routes is being developed in conjunction with local councils. Wherever possible the routes avoid roads, but in some places have to share the road network.

This SUSTRANS network milestone marker is on national route 68, also known as the Pennine Cycleway. At this point it is sharing the towpath of the Leeds – Liverpool canal. The cycle route runs up the spine of England and through three National Parks between Derby and Berwick-upon-Tweed.

As part of the millennium celebrations 1000 mileposts have been installed at various positions throughout the whole SUSTRANS network as part of a Millennium Commission project supported by £43.5m of National Lottery Funds.

The posts should all bear embossed discs showing a "Time Trail" symbol. These form a nationwide puzzle that can be cracked by collecting the symbols. By taking rubbings of these discs it is possible to gains clues to help decipher the code. There are several layers to uncover to reach the solution and a special Ultimate Prize for those who can work it out. For many, especially children and families, the fun will be in just getting out on the Network to find the mileposts and discs.

The disc is missing from this milepost.

There are a number of different types of milestone and this type was designed by John Mills and is called 'The Fossil Tree'. This design takes the form of an abstract tree with relief imagery of fossils depicting the passage of time from early primitive creatures to the ultimate demise of fossil fuel driven technology.

The milestones were presented to each local community in a bare metal state. Each community was encouraged to paint them using their own colour scheme and this one has been simply painted black.

This milestone stands next to a mooring point for canal boats.

Condition: Immaculate Date placed: 01/01/2001 Material: Metal Inscription: 1M BARNOLDSWICK   COLNE 4M 9M GARGRAVE     BURNLEY 11M National Cycle Network 68 The Royal Bank of Scotland This is one of 1000 mileposts funded by The Royal Bank of Scotland to mark the creation of the National Cycle Network Name of road: The Leeds and Liverpool Canal and SUSTRANS National Cycle Route 68

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