WITH reference to the letter “Cowcliffe and Ochre Hole” by Tony Sosna printed in the Examiner on March 6.

The stone which was on the Ochre Hole prior to the building of the houses along this road is not a milestone but a boundary stone placed there in 1764. When the new houses were built the stone was removed and placed in Ravensknowle Park behind the Tolson Memorial Museum. A photograph of the stone in its original location appears in Crumps Huddersfield Highways Down the Ages (1949), a copy of this book can be seen in Huddersfield Local History Library.

Other milestones I know about are two along Halifax Old Road. The first is on the left side going from Bradford Road just past the junction with Grimscar Avenue and is inscribed on the left “From Huddersfield 1 miles” and on the right “To Huddersfield 1 miles”. The second is again on the left side about 150 yards past the start of the lower wood. It has a plate on the sloping front reading “Brayshaw and Booth Makers Liversedge”. Inscribed on this milestone is, top front “Halifax & Huddersfield Road Fixby”, left side “Halifax 8 miles Elland 2 miles”, right side “Huddersfield 2 miles”.

I believe there is also a milestone on Edgerton Road, somewhere near to the wooden tram shelter at the top of Clayton Fields, but I do not have any details about this one.

K Porter

Birkby