2012 Olympic Park Milestone - Bakewell, UK - Olympic Memorabilia on Waymarking.com

The milestone was erected as part of an Arts Derbyshire event to mark key points along the Olympic Torch bearing route through Derbyshire.

"The stone was sourced from local quarries, and specifically chosen to match the local stone in each place. The face of each milestone is engraved with the name of the town or village, London 2012, and the distance in miles to the Olympic Park. Andy Oldfield from The Fringe Workshop, who is a local stone carver, was commissioned to design and carve the milestones.

Each milestone also has a few lines of poetry inscribed along the edges, making it part of a long poetry trail throughout the county. Matt Black, who was the Derbyshire Poet Laureate, wrote the poems.

The milestones were unveiled by Derbyshire Olympic Torchbearers in a "relay" on Sunday, 9 September 2012, to coincide with the Closing Ceremony of the Paralympic Games, the final London 2012 event." link

This mile stone is next to a wall at the beginning of the bridge that carries Bridge Street over the River Wye.

Each of the poems on the milestones reflect its locality and in this case contains a reference to its location near to a bend in the River Wye and the town's regional dessert dish Bakewell Pudding.
        

road, river-bend, snail-		which way, which recipe
trail, or arrow of crow		will you follow?

The official explanation of the poem is

Bakewell
"This one perches next to the road, and the river (with 2 bends). It is also immediately as you come out of the car park to cross the bridge into town, so it asks the question of visitors asto which route to follow at the start of their journey round Bakewell. “Recipe” reminds us of puddings, tarts etc., obviously."

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