Milestone is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 2009. Milestone.
Milestone
- WRENN ID
- silent-banister-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 2009
- Type
- Milestone
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ILKLEY
710/0/10020 KEIGHLEY ROAD 29-JAN-09 Milestone
II Milestone, 17th-18th C, stone obelisk c. 1 metre high, set by the road.
ELEVATIONS: squared front and sides, the front face bearing the inscription: To Keighley/ 4 M, with a crudely incised hand pointing left below, and To Ilkley, with a hand pointing right. There may be further words or marks below the hand but they are not legible (? R?).
HISTORY: The stone is marked as a bench mark (BM) and a Milestone (MS) on the 1894 edition OS map, with the mileages to Keighley (4 miles) and Ilkley (1 Mile) given, and as a milestone on the 1851 edition OS map. It may date from the period in the eighteenth century when the creation of turnpikes shifted the cost of road maintenance onto the road user through Act of Parliament, or possibly earlier as a guide marker to direct travellers over the moors.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION The milestone at Keighley Road is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It dates to before 1840 and possibly to the seventeenth or eighteenth century * It is of individual design with hand carved inscriptions.
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