MILESTONE LINKS

Milestone related websites and other interesting "roadside" related sites
The Milestone Society (MSS)	Use the link to the left for the unofficial page of The Milestone Society housed in this website. Or click on the logo for the official website. You can find out all about the Society, its aims and endeavours. Includes application form.
Milestonesweb-counting down the miles	An interesting site by Richard Mudhar covering several counties with images, locations and text. Richard is now MSS local group coordinator for Suffolk.
Boundary stones, Guide stones, Waymarker stones.	A developing site by Alan Heaton. The illustrated pages relating to stones is quite fascinating.
Hartpury Historic Land & Buildings Trust	Website of Hartpury village, 5 miles north of Gloucester. Click on "Milestones" for four routes out of Gloucester. Also available as 32 page booklet. See Books below.
wetroads.co.uk	A handy reference site which aims to list all known fords in the United Kingdom. A useful guide for those driving off the main highways as not all fords are marked on Ordnance Survey maps.
A1 - The Great North Road	Biff Vernon's fascinating site reveals lots of interesting details about the London-Edinburgh road through the past including some milestone information and a few mysteries along the way.

Guideposts, signposts and fingerposts.
Apex Corner	A site dedicated to British roads! Have you ever wondered -- even in passing -- where the A27 goes, or what old road signs used to look like? Well if you have (and even if you haven't), you need look no further! Has a page dedicated to fingerposts.
Maps and Milestones
John Cary map "Fifteen Miles Round London" of 1786.	The MOTCO website has the one inch to the mile map in high quality. Shows all the milestones and turnpikes around London
Your Old Maps Online	Your Old Maps Online website. Very high quality images of old maps that you can download. The John Cary county maps of 1787 are a useful guide to old routes.
Old Ordnance Survey 6" maps	Very useful site for tracing milestones of the mid-19th century.

Other markers. Trig pillars, boundary markers, etc.
TrigpointingUK.com	An interesting website from Ian Harris. Online trigpoint database. Log your visits to trigpoints and help to maintain the database.

ESSEX - Pictorial websites.
Essex Images	These galleries of Essex photographs feature work by Dennis Mansell, a well-known photographer who died in 1993, as well as photos by his son David Mansell. Please take time to look at the photographs using the navigation on the left, general galleries at the top, and then towns and villages listed alphabetically below.
Essex Churches Photos.	Almost 450 parish churches in Essex are pictured on this site.
Essex Village Signs	From Abberton to Writtle. Almost 250 village signs of Essex illustrated.
Pictorial websites - Other counties.
Suffolk Churches	644 entries with images and full descriptive text.
Norfolk Village Signs	Considered to be the original home of the village sign, Norfolk has more than enough to satisfy the armchair enthusiast.
Cheshire Churches	Use the alphabet links in the left-hand frame.
Societies and Organisations
The Village Sign Society	The Village Sign Society was founded in 1999 by Maureen Long and Shirley Addy, co-producers of the popular series of books on Suffolk village signs, "Suffolk Signs". Through the publication of these books, Maureen and Shirley were contacted by many people fascinated by village signs, and so the idea of forming a society for like-minded people was born. The Society has now over 120 enthusiastic, active and armchair sign-spotting members, and continues to grow as the interest in village signs expands, particularly shown in the erection of many new signs to celebrate the Millennium.



Manufacturers and Restoration
The Countryways Vintage Collection	To quote from the website... "We are involved in the manufacture & repair of traditional finger post signposts in both oak and cast metal as well as village signs, house & road signs and railway memorabilia. Our signs can be seen in many places in Kent, Sussex and Hampshire but of special note are the New Forest, Brenchley - Kent's best kept village, the "Pooh Sticks" Bridge in Hartfield and the historical Bluebell Railway in Sussex." Please quote www.milestonesonline.co.uk when contacting Countryways.


Publications
Marking the Miles, A History of English Milestones	By Carol Haines. A must for all devotees of milestones. Click link on left for details and how to order.
Milestones	By Mervyn Benford: (Shire Publications Ltd., Princes Risborough; 2002; 48pp, ISBN 0 7478 0526 1. Price £4.99.) Well illustrated throughout. For details of other Shire publications CLICK HERE.
Turnpike Roads (Shire Album 283)	By Geoffrey N Wright (Shire Publications Ltd., Princes Risborough: 1992-1997; 32pp. ISBN 0-7478-0155-X. Price £2.50.) A nice little introduction to turnpikes, milestones, etc. For details of other Shire publications CLICK HERE.
Map of Essex 1777 by Chapman and Andre	Regarded as a bible for Essex historians, this map to a scale of 2 inches to the mile is must for milestone locations in the late 18th century. Available to buy online on 25 sheets from Phillimore and Co.
Turnpike Roads Around Rayleigh.	By Noel Beer: (HTR Publications, 13 Nelson Road, Rayleigh, Essex, SS6 8HB; 2000); ISBN 0 - 9537970 - 0 - 7. 56 pp. Price £2.50. Can be ordered through most book shops.
A Field Guide to the Boundary Markers on and around Dartmoor	By Dave Brewer. (Devon Books, publisher to Devon County Council. 1986. ) 102pp. Softback. ISBN. 0 86114-786-3. Price (in 1986) £3.95. Maybe not alongside roads but boundary stones make a good companion to milestones. A fascinating view of a neglected subject.
Road Signs	By Stuart Hands. (Shire Publications Ltd, Princes Risborough. 2002. 32pp. ISBN 0-7478-0531-8. Price £3.50.) An interesting little volume plotting the development of road signs and other roadside markers. For details of other Shire publications CLICK HERE.
Wiltshire Toll Houses	By Robert Haynes and Ivor Slocombe. A "must" for the toll house enthusiast on a visit to Wiltshire. About 120 toll houses (50 still in existence) illustrated and described out of an original total of over 200. CLICK HERE for further details and order form or go to HobnoB Press website HERE.
Milestones. A survey of four routes north & west of Gloucester.	Published by the Hartbury Historic Land and Buildings Trust. A5 format, 32 pages, colour illustrations. ISBN 0-9538968-3-8
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