Links to Related Websites
These links are for general or national sites, including Wales and Scotland.
Milestones
Yorkshire Milestones
Here you will find a variety of articles on the wealth of historic roadside features in Yorkshire: not just milestones, but other waymarkers, boundary markers, toll-houses...
Warwickshire Wayside
Explore illustrations and information about Warwickshire’s surviving wayside heritage.
Chepstow Milestones
Local historian Roy Parkhouse locates and illustrates milestones around his Monmouthshire hometown.
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.
A Short History of Waymarkers
An excellent and informative over-view of waymarkers, ancient and current.
Flickr pages:
Mapping
Old-Maps
Historical OS maps available to search online from 1840’s to 1960’s for the whole of Great Britain. Search by place name or grid coordinates. Side by side mapping available with modern satellite imagery. Personal copies can be purchased.
Geograph
A huge website, with almost 2.5 million photos, arranged by Ordnance Survey grid squares, showing geographical features, including the Milestone Society's images.
Magic
Department of Food and Rural Affairs' version of OS mapping for boundaries and land use. Search by postcode, place name, grid reference, etc; zoom from 1:80,000 to 1:5,000 or lower. Also contains tools for measuring distances and area.
ARCHI
The archaeological sites index (ARCHI) is searchable database of thousands of UK sites.
Getamap
Ordnance Survey's online mapping service. Search by placename, post code or grid reference; navigable from one end of the kingdom to the other. Zoomable down to 1:25,000. Click on any point to get a grid reference. You can find Milestones shown as Points of Interest too: https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/54.30430,-3.39649,7/poi-overview/1551701002620
David Archer sells Ordnance Survey maps, published from 1801 to the present. The one-inch and larger scales usually show milestones, and are essential for milestone research.
Tollhouses & Turnpikes
Flickr tollhouse discussion group
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.
Fingerposts, Boundary Stones and other Wayside Features
Finger Posts UK
A Flickr Group. More pictures - from John Nicholls, Robin Barratt, Tim Jenkinson, Alan Rosevear and Tony Boyce
Canal Mileposts
Mileposts of the Gloucester and Sharpness Ship Canal
www.mbbcs.org.uk - committed to the reconstruction of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal
Societies and other Organisations with an active interest in milestones and other wayside features
English Heritage
The organisation cares for over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places - from world-famous prehistoric sites to grand medieval castles, from Roman forts on the edges of an empire to a Cold War bunker.
Historic England
The public body that helps people care for, enjoy and celebrate England's spectacular historic environment has launched its on-line National Heritage List for England, giving descriptions of all listed buildings, scheduled monuments, gardens, battlefields etc.- including 2000 milestones!
CADW
National Historic Assets of Wales is an online service that has been developed by Cadw, the Welsh Government’s historic environment service. Cof Cymru displays the records on a mapping base with associated record descriptions.
CANMORE
Canmore contains more than 320,000 records and 1.3 million catalogue entries for archaeological sites, buildings, industry and maritime heritage across Scotland. Compiled and managed by Historic Environment Scotland, Canmore contains information and collections from all its survey and recording work, as well as from a wide range of other organisations.
Heritage Gateway
You can search local records alongside national ones, historic environment, listed buildings, archaeological excavations and contemporary photographs – explore an area’s history through records and images with links to other local heritage information.
Sabre: The Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts
Started in 1999 as an online forum, SABRE now has over 2000 enthusiasts who meet up frequently. The Society’s mission statement embraces ‘all existing, obsolete, shelved, renumbered, declassified, defunct, projected, planned and fantastic roads’.
They are developing their on-line gallery and mapping into the past – worth a look to see how sister organisations are enthusing the public!
GLASS is the National User Group for those who enjoy using the Country’s network of ancient unsurfaced public roads and vehicular rights of way, a not for profit association dedicated to driving, protecting and researching our unique heritage of unsurfaced public highways. "Green Laners". www.glass-uk.org
The Village Sign Society
‘Village signs are important in fostering a community spirit in an age of increasing uniformity’. Founded in 2001, the Society is compiling inventory of vintage signs, a ‘potent reminder of our local history and culture’. Modern signs too contribute to commemorating local crafts and legends – and marking the way!!
The Letter Box Study Group, the recognised authority on the British Letterbox.
Sustrans
A description of the Millennium waymarkers commissioned for Sustrans' national cycle network.