Milestone
MILESTONE, KEIGHLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393169
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone
- Statutory Address:
- MILESTONE, KEIGHLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393169
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILESTONE, KEIGHLEY ROAD
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, KEIGHLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilkley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 10990 46768
Reasons for Designation
The milestone at Keighley Road is designated for listing 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.
Details
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.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 504992
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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