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Milestone in Sutton High Street is a wayside marker dating from the turnpike era of the eighteenth or nineteenth century. The milestone stands on Sutton High Street in Surrey and represents the type of distance marker that became common along major roads following the establishment of turnpike trusts, which improved and maintained road networks across England during this period. Such milestones served the practical purpose of indicating distances to major towns and settlements, aiding travellers and facilitating the organisation of toll collection along turnpike roads. The survival of this example contributes to the material record of Surrey's transport history and the development of its principal thoroughfares.
Milestone in Sutton High Street is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1001998. View the official record →
Milestone in Sutton High Street is a wayside marker dating from the turnpike era of the eighteenth or nineteenth century. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1001998.
Milestone in Sutton High Street is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1001998.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Late Bronze Age enclosure at Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton (3.1 km), Two Saxon burial mounds on Gally Hills (3.8 km), Two Saxon burial mounds on Gally Hills, west of Brighton Road (3.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Milestone in Sutton High Street's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Milestone in Sutton High Street stands on Lambeth Group, bedrock that formed in the Paleocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.