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 ...
The site of a cast iron milepost dating to the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1938. It was located at the east end of Preston Lane, Preston on Stour.
1 An unelaborate iron mile marker, replacing an ornate cast iron milepost (PRN 5453).
The site of an iron milepost dating to the Imperial period. It is situated on Preston Lane, Preston on Stour.
1 A turnpike road constructed between 1729-50. The first Act was 1729.
2 The Act for repairing the Road leading from a Gate called Shipston Toll Gate, at Bridge Town, in ...
A toll road which ran from Stratford to Long Compton Hill. It was built during the Post Medieval period and continued in use into the Imperial period.
1 Alscot Park was apparently established NE of the Stour in 1401, when the lord of Alscot was granted free warren. The park was infringed in 1593 and was possibly ...
The site of Alscot Park. The deer park dates back to the Medieval period and was remodelled in the 18th-19th centuries to become a landscape park. It was situated 500m east of Preston on Stour.
1 The Shipston Road following the Stour Valley. It is referred to as the ealden straete (old road) in an Alderminster charter of AD 972.
2 Illustrative map.
Ealdan Straet, an Early Medieval trackway referred to in a 10th century charter. The route follows the Stour Valley towards Shipston.
1 The Medieval Alscot Park was enlarged in the period 1742-47. In the early 18th century it was described in Atkyns Gloucestershire as delightful. In 1747 it was described ...
Alscot Park, a landscape park which was created in the Post Medieval period. A variety of garden features were added in the 19th and 20th centuries. The landscape park is located to the south of Atherstone on Stour.