Milepost 300m N of Broadmoor Lodge

Description of this historic site

A milepost, dating from the Imperial period, is located 750m south of Mitford Bridge.

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Notes about this historic site

1 Mile Post marked.
2 One of a series of cast iron mile markers placed exactly one mile apart on the Stratford on Avon to Oxford turnpike road, the first being one mile from the last milestone on the Oxfordshire side of the county boundary. They resemble a lamp-post without the lamp, having a fluted column with an ornate foliated base, and at the top two decorative arms pointing to Oxford and Stratford.
3 Survives intact.
4 Photographed in 1983.
5 On enclosure in 1845 in Little Wolford, the trunk road from Mitford Bridge to Long Compton was modified in two projects viz from Long Compton to Milestone Hill and from Mitford Bridge to Milestone Hill. The former at the expense of Sir George Philips and the latter , indirectly at the expense of the Turnpike Trust (see correspondence on CR456 Box 22/52) at Warwick Record Office. I think that Record Number 1853, SP 26 36 was the Milestone Hill point and Record Number 4730, SP 27 34 the Long Compton. Both were points on both the original trunk road and retained when modified.