Milestone - Thrapston Road, Spaldwick, Cambridgeshire, UK.
N 52° 20.533 W 000° 20.664
30U E 680898 N 5802421
This milestone has probably been re-located.
Waymark Code: WMD6J2
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/27/2011
Views: 10
Sitting in it's own newly created gravel area, this milestone is almost certainly not where it started life. It has been placed facing houses rather than facing the main road.
The 1890 Ordnance survey map places this milestone about a third of a mile further east. The map says that this stone marks the following distances:-
Thrapston 10
Huntingdon 7
Condition: Immaculate
Material: Stone
Inscription:
Left:-
To
Thrapston
10
Miles
Right
To
Huntingdon
7
Miles
Name of road: Thrapston Road.
Date placed: Not listed
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