Site of Milepost SW of Orchard Hill Cottage

Description of this historic site

The site of a milepost southwest of Orchard Hill Cottage. One of a series of cast iron mile markers placed exactly one mile apart on the Stratford on Avon to Oxford turnpike road. It dated to the Imperial period, and is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1938.

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.
3 No longer visible.