LISTED STONES
1 MILESTONE, A682
SD 8279 4753
18th Century. Inscriptions now partly illegible.
Left hand face reads 'To Burnley 8 miles'
Right hand face reads 'To Clithero 5ms, [Gis]born I m’
2 MILESTONE, A682
SD 8463 4465
Probably early 19th Century.
Left hand face inscribed 'To Gisburn 3 miles'
Right hand face inscribed 'To Burnley 9 miles'
3 BOUNDARY STONE, A682
SD 8541 4399
19th Century.Left hand face inscribed 'Middop'
Right hand face inscribed 'Brogden
No picture available (August 2020)
4 MILESTONE, A682
SD 8285 4717
Probably early 19th Century.
Left hand face inscribed 'To Burnley 11 miles'
Right hand face inscribed 'To Gisburn I mile'
5 MILESTONE
SD 8384 4600
Probably early 19th Century.
Left hand face inscribed 'To Burnley 10 miles'
Right hand face inscribed 'To Gisburn 2 miles'
STONES NOT LISTED
6 BOUNDARY STONE, A682
SD 8411 4573
Date not known
Left hand face inscribed 'Middop'
Right hand face inscribed 'Rimington'
(At July 2020 this stone is in the ground the wrong way round)
7 BOUNDARY STONE, A682
SD 8284 4786
Date not known
Left hand face inscribed 'Gisburn'
Left hand face inscribed 'Rimington'
No picture available (August 2020)
8 BOUNDARY BETWEEN LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE ON DOWNHAM BRIDGE
SD 7885 4518
Although not strictly a boundary stone, the carving in the parapet at Downham Bridge shows the boundary between Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire until the local government changes in 1974. This change inspired Christine Thistlethwaite to write the first of her dialect poems ‘’A Yorkshire Lad’s Lament’’, which is available to be heard in Christine’s section of the website.
TROUGHS
Horses and drovers’ animals would be able to drink from the few stone troughs situated about the vicinity when they did not take the opportunity when fording becks and streams. Newby’s double trough was built in the 1890s. The tap above the trough on the roadside provided water to the inhabitants and a through-pipe let water flow to the field-side trough for the farm animals. The trough near Halsteads Farm once stood further along the roadside, and was supplied with a steady trickle of water through its eye-catching arched iron spout. Other troughs about the parish include one on Martin Top Lane, another at the bottom of Howgill, and one near New House, Middop.
9 Halsteads
SD 8088 4606
Trough in 2009, before it was moved
10 Howgill
SD 8252 4600
11 Martin Top
SD 8213 4561
12 Newby
SD 8164 4594
The rough on the road side provided water to the houses at Newby.
13 New House
SD 8428 4526
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