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Milestone Society Links 

The Milestone Society

Local History Online: for news, resources, information, courses, links and a calendar of events
 

National Monuments Record: Images of England

 
A Vision of Britain Through Time: Britain between 1801 and 2001.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions
 
   

 

LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETIES IN YORKSHIRE

 

Bingley and District Local History Society

Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society

Halifax Antquarian Society

Hebden Bridge Local History Society

Huddersfield & District Archaeological Society

Huddersfield Local History Society

MARSDEN HISTORY SOCIETY

Ryburn Valley History Society

Spen Valley Historical Society

Saddleworth Historical Society

WAKEFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Note to local history societies: please contact us if you would like a link on this page.

 

OTHER WEBSITES WITH MILESTONE INFORMATION AND PICTURES

GEOCACHES NEAR MILESTONES OR TOLLHOUSES  Geocachers hunt for secret caches around the countryside (and world) by solving intriguing clues - and some clues involve milestones, guide stoops or tollhouses. The site lists a number of such caches.And there are Milestone Society trackables at large!

Highway Hazel's Flickr pages: Milestones and tollhouses (mostly West Yorkshire)

Man on a bike: Yorkshire: a photographic record: milestones, boundary stones, finger posts, etc

Tollhouse Alan's Flickr pages: Boundary stones and markers

Tollhouse Alan's Flickr pages: Milestones and Waymarkers

 Interesting features in the Yorkshire Dales, including Turbary Stones:  http://www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/lookingafter/caringfor/historicfeaturesbuildings/featureofseason/turbarystones

Some interesting history of the marker stones around Saddleworth : http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/andy-hemingway-folklore-in-the-landscape-pt-2-i3957.html

JHS / updated July 2014

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