Related Websites
Milestones
Publication - Marking the Miles, A History of English Milestones
Boundary stones, Mile stones and Waymarker stones
Public Sculptures of Sussex.co.uk
A detailed description of a Bow Bells milepost
Yorkshire Milestones
Illustrations of 1300+ milestones and guide stoops in GoogleMapping, by Parish, within the pre-1974 Yorkshire boundaries. Also activities of the Yorkshire Group of the Milestone Society.
Milestones & Boundary Markers in Glamorgan
Oxford Streets: Site covers many aspects of the local history of Oxford and surrounding areas, including 'milestones', 'wayside stones', including boundary, mileway, hundred and mounting stones. Contains good, fairly recent photographs. Site regularly updated.
Peter Nelson's Website - home of GYMD date coding, Milestones and Boundary Markers".
Contents: Milestone maps of Berkshire, Essex, Oxfordshire (under development) including tollgate sites as well as vanished and surviving milestones; Boundary Stone maps for Berkshire and Essex, including images and locations. Constantly updated.
Douglas Cameron (1912-2007) was an amateur photographer and observer of life. His son has undertaken to digitize his collection of 35,000 35mm slides and make them publicly available. With a careful use of the search facility, there are over 80 photographs of milestones. Of particular interest are two sets: Milestones and Signposts
The Bench Mark Database holds information and recent photographs of Ordnance Survey bench marks in Britain. Milestones and other wayside markers were often used as secure and stable locations for survey marks and there is cross referencing between items held in the Bench Mark database and the Milestone Society database.
Flickr pages:Highway Hazel's milestones and tollhouses, mostly West Yorkshire
Tollhouse Alan's west country milestones
Tollhouse Alan's Milestones and Waymarkers
Tollhouses
Bridgemarker Tim's gallery including Devon milestones, Devon toll houses and Devon bridge markers.
Flickr tollhouse discussion group
Other Wayside Features
Mapman43's Flickr archive
John Nicholls personal collection featuring fingerposts of Oxfordshire, Essex, Cheshire and Buckinghamshire.
Finger Posts UK
More pictures - from John Nicholls, Robin Barratt, Tim Jenkinson, Alan Rosevear and Tony Boyce
Boundary stones, Mile stones and Waymarker stones
Old Fingerposts in Westmorland, on Googlemapping
Canal Mileposts
An enthusiast's view of all the mileposts on the Trent and Mersey Canal
A complete gazeteer of the remaining Milestones on the Leeds-Liverpool canal
Turnpikes & Miscellanies
Turnpike Roads in England
This new webpage not only gives information on the title subject but also contains links to information on tollhouses, milestones, road users and turnpike trusts.
Glossary of terms relating to wayside features
Draft versions of terminology describing milestones and fingerposts
