Some Gloucestershire Milestones

From Jack Bayes  (10 March 2005)

Love the website!  In the past I have studied the turnpike road from Gloucester to Tewkesbury.  This was part of the Cheltenham & Tewkesbury Turnpike Trust.  It covered the road from Gloucester to Cheltenham and from Gloucester towards Tewkesbury for just over 4 miles to Norton Mill, (where the Tewkesbury Turnpike Trust took over).

In 1789 the Trust ordered milestones to be erected*, pictures of the four on the Tewkesbury stretch, now the A38,  are attached.

* Minutes of Cheltenham & Tewksbury Turnpike Trust, Gloucestershire Record Office Ref. D204/1/1.
Gloster1.jpg (64483 bytes) Gloster I   (no plate)
Location:   Longford.  NGR:   SO838205  on the south-east verge
Gloster2.jpg (78076 bytes) Gloster II 
Location:   Twigworth.  NGR:  SO849225  on the north-west verge
Gloster3.jpg (69074 bytes) Gloster III
 Location:  Cold Elm (Norton).  NGR:  SO856238 on the east verge
Gloster4.jpg (63008 bytes) Gloster IV 
Location:   Norton (nr. Mill).  NGR: SO866248 on north side of old road.
Mythe.jpg (79027 bytes) Tewkesbury Trust milestone at The Mythe, A38 North of Tewkesbury, (no plate).
Location:  NGR  SO890341 on east verge.