Abingdon Milestones Quiz

This quiz is about old style stone milestones to be found at the side of the road. They are not the milestones in project management.

All the milestones have a distance to Abingdon, and a distance to another place. So where would you find them?

Abingdon Milestones
A. Isley 9, Abingdon 2

Abingdon Milestones
B.  London LVIII, Abingdon II

Abingdon Milestones
C. Oxford 3, Abingdon 3

Abingdon Milestones
D. Oxford 1, Abingdon 5

I am no expert and have not attempted to date them. A website called A Short History of Waymarks does help. There is also a Milestone Society, founded in 2001, for milestone enthusiasts. Members’ interests also include tollhouses, turnpike history and canal milestones.

7 thoughts on “Abingdon Milestones Quiz

  1. Daniel

    I have often seen these mile markers around and about the UK and have often thought, of all things, there must be a niche interest in them…

    What a thoroughly wonderful blog item. Thank you.

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  2. Backstreeter

    Well Done!
    A Drayton (just beyond Sutton Wick),
    B Gozzards Ford (next to the Black Horse)
    C is near Boars Hill on Foxcombe Road, the Abingdon side of where the subsidence happened
    D is Abingdon Road, Oxford, near the Tesco Express

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