Milestone approximately 200 metres south of junction with Royd Moor Road at SE 216040
Milestone approximately 200 metres south of junction with Royd Moor Road at SE 216040, High Banks Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315076
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone approximately 200 metres south of junction with Royd Moor Road at SE 216040
- Statutory Address:
- Milestone approximately 200 metres south of junction with Royd Moor Road at SE 216040, High Banks Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315076
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone approximately 200 metres south of junction with Royd Moor Road at SE 216040
- Statutory Address 1:
- Milestone approximately 200 metres south of junction with Royd Moor Road at SE 216040, High Banks Lane
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Milestone approximately 200 metres south of junction with Royd Moor Road at SE 216040, High Banks Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Penistone
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 21730 04027
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 October 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SE 20 SW
3/97
PENISTONE
Thurstone
HIGH BANKS LANE (south-west side)
Milestone approximately 200 metres south of junction with Royd Moor Road at SE 216040
(Formerly listed as Milestone approx. 200 metres south of junction with Royal Moor Road at SE 216040)
II
Milestone. Mid C18; Monolithic, flat-topped pillar with weathered faces and partly-obliterated lettering:
on south-east side: "(P)enistone/(1) mile";
on north-east side: "Hudder(s)field)"
on north-west side: "Holm/firth/4 miles"
Situated on a packhorse route which ran from Penistone to Meltham and Marsden. A guide stoop further along the route towards Holmfirth has a date of 1761 on it.
This milestone will have been erected after 1738 as miles were indicated only after this date.
(D Hey, Packnen, Carriers and Packhorse Road, 1980)
Listing NGR: SE2173004027
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334049
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hey, D, Packmen Carriers and Packhorse Road, (1980)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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