Guidepost at the junction of Cow Lane and Castle Mill Lane

The guidepost at the junction of Cow Lane and Castle Mill Lane is a late 19th-century structure designed and cast by W H Smith and Co (Whitchurch) Ltd. Made of cast iron, it features a hollow octagonal shaft. The lower section serves as a plinth, while the upper section tapers off a plain torus base and is topped with a simple moulded cornice. On the northern side of the shaft, below the cornice, is a triangular 'shield' moulding. Above the cornice, a narrower round-section shaft supports three cast-iron direction fingers, which display raised black-painted sans serif capital letters on a white background. The directions read: RINGWAY / WILMSLOW; HALE / ALTRINGHAM; MOBBERLEY / ROTHERNE. The fingers have scalloped outer corners, an integral spandrel bracket, and paired cast shaft hoops that are secured by locking nuts. At the top of the hollow shaft, a secondary cast-iron finial resembling the base of a pawn chess piece features a circular plate with raised letters that read: ASHLEY PARISH COUNCIL.