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Dist:0.4km<br/>For a wider view [[1879473]] Milestones/posts did not come into general use until the Turnpike Act of 1766 made them compulsory on turnpike roads, these roads were built by private enterprise under licence from the Government and maintained by tolls on those who used them. Before this Act milestones were put up occasionally, often as charitable acts and commemorations. Many Turnpike Act stones still exist. They are usually 2-3 ft high, with the initial letter or abbreviation of the nearest market town show on two faces, and the distance from it.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.4km<br/>A milepost stands beside the A52. Milestones/posts are the original roadside heritage features with many dating back hundreds of years and these historic items are under threat from highway developments.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.4km<br/>The casting on the top suggests it's in Consall parish, but Blakeley Lane is the nearest settlement on the map, so that's the name I'm inclined to use for it. Detail in [[1731692]].
©Richard Law
Dist:0.4km<br/>It looks like this one's been clouted by passing traffic at some stage, as it's split more or less in twain down the middle.
©Richard Law
Dist:0.4km<br/>A small Methodist church on the A52; the three foundation stones in the lower courses of the brickwork suggest that it was built in 1890.
©Richard Law
Dist:0.4km<br/>Blakeley Lane Methodist Church is part of the Cheadle Circuit
©Ian Calderwood
Dist:0.8km<br/>
©Ian Calderwood
Dist:1.0km southeast<br/>
©Richard Law
Dist:1.0km southeast<br/>It's not easy to read on account of the rust, but I reckon it's "Leek 7, Cheadle 3"
©Richard Law
Dist:1.0km west<br/>There are no clues or signage up (except a broken sign just to the left of the gateway) but it shows every sign of being a covered water reservoir.
©Richard Law
Dist:1.0km west<br/>Photographed after surreptitiously climbing the fence surrounding the reservoir site.
©Richard Law
Dist:1.1km northwest<br/>Roadside farmhouse on the A522 just south of Wetley Rocks
©Roger May
Dist:1.1km north<br/>
©Geoff Pick
Dist:1.1km east<br/>The stream flowing through these trees joins the Churnet which joins the Dove and thence joins the Trent to flow into the North Sea via the Humber. Yet only 30 miles to the north-west is the Mersey estuary.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:1.2km west<br/>
©Richard Law

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