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Milestone SE of Yarnbury Castle is a stone marker located in Wiltshire near the Iron Age hillfort of Yarnbury Castle. The milestone dates from the turnpike road era, likely the eighteenth or nineteenth century, and represents the infrastructure development associated with improved transport routes across the English countryside during this period. The monument stands as evidence of the commercial and administrative systems that governed road maintenance and toll collection in post-medieval Wiltshire. Its position near the prehistoric hillfort illustrates the layering of different historical periods across the same landscape, with modern communication routes following paths established over centuries of human activity.
Milestone SE of Yarnbury Castle is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005621. View the official record →
Milestone SE of Yarnbury Castle is a stone marker located in Wiltshire near the Iron Age hillfort of Yarnbury Castle. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005621.
Milestone SE of Yarnbury Castle 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 1005621.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hanging Langford camp and Church-end Ring (5.6 km), The Bake and Wylye Down milestones (6.6 km), Ditch, 343yds (310m) ENE of East Farm Cottages to 800yds (730m) NW of St Martin's Chapel (7.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Milestone SE of Yarnbury Castle'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 SE of Yarnbury Castle stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.