Grid reference SE2814
near to West Bretton, Wakefield, England
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Huddersfield Road West Bretton
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Old Milestone by the A636, Denby Dale Road, West Bretton
Metal plate attached to stone post by the A636, in parish of WEST BRETTON (WAKEFIELD District), Denby Dale Road, ⅔ mile North East of roundabout with the A637, in verge, 65cm from kerb and near new entrance, on East side of road.... (more)
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The former Common End sandstone quarry
In Dawson Plantation [formerly known as Common End Plantation]. The quarry is shown and named on the large-scale OS map surveyed in 1849-51, but was described as 'disused' on the 1891 map.
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Milestone, Huddersfield Road A637, West Bretton
This is on a short length of dual carriageway adjacent to the A636 roundabout.
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Footpath beside Dawson Plantation
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All wrapped up.
Emley moor TV mast can be seen in the background.
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Huddersfield Road (A637)
Heading south east towards Barnsley.
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Brickyard Plantation Nature Reserve
The entrance to the Brickyard Plantation Nature Reserve. Managed by the Wakefield Naturalists Society. The derelict clay pit was used as a rubbish tip until the 1960s.
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Edge of ploughed field off Denby Dale Road, West Bretton CP
The area on the left is a disused coal mine.
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WRCC Milestone
Near roundabout, Junction of A637 and A636
Erected 1893-94
Surveyed
Milestone Society National ID: YW_BNHU07
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Entrance to Brickyard Plantation Nature Reserve
All green at the height of summer.
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Old milestone
One of the 300+ remaining of 615 milestones set up for the West Riding CC in 1893/4 by the family stonemason firm of Gill and Frank Stead of Mirfield. In 2010 this post on the A636 was uprooted and taken to the Highways Depot and in 2011... (more)
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