Site Event/Activity record ECH7073 - Cheshire Milestones: A Survey

From 2003 to 2004 John Higgins, John Nicholl and Gillian Oakes surveyed and photographed 277 milestones, posts and boundary stones in Cheshire. The county was split into two - Cheshire East (Macclesfield, Congleton, Crewe and Nantwich) and Cheshire West (Ellesmere Port & Neston, Vale Royal, Halton, Warrington). The survey also included Stockport, Temeside, Trafford and the Wirral. (1) The Cheshire study formed part of national research undertaken by The Milestone Society, established in 2001, to “identify, record, research, conserve and interpret for public benefit the milestones and other waymarkers of the British Isles”; research also includes tollhouses, turnpike history and canal milestones. Charitable status was gained in 2004. (2)