RoadsideMilestonesUK

                    Database of the Telford milestones along the A5 road across Wales  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Compiled by R J Price The Milestones are numbered from Holyhead and correspond to the number of miles from Holyhead. In viewing the Telford Milestones along the A5 it is worth noting how important they were when they were placed, at a time when no motor vehicles existed. Passing them would have been the mail coaches, riders on horseback and all manner of horse drawn carriages as well as those on foot.  It is not hard to imagine today, as we pass these mostly highly visible milestones as we travel on the A5, the passengers in the stagecoaches glancing at the milestones as they ticked off the miles on what was said by many to be a very tedious journey. I guess that on many a stagecoach journey children played 'Spot The Milestone' just as some may well still do today.  One soon gets the hang of judging the distance of...