Really Old Milestone Restored in the UK

I came across a very interesting article in the July 5th Comet which publishes out of the United Kingdom.

An ancient milestone, erected by the Parliamentary Act of 1725, has been found, restored, and placed back along the Old North Road which it marked until World War II. Now that is OLD. I doubt that we have any old road signs in the US dating back to that era.

Now, get this, is was taken down on purpose during WWII so that German soldiers would not be able to use it to determine where they were!!! Now that is just some sort of an interesting story. They were so sure they were going to be invaded that they took this precaution. However, it is this "hiding" that probably enabled it to survive as one of the very few such markers still in existence.

It was largely forgotten until a new owner of the land was told by an old man that he remembered it being buried during the war when he was a lad of seven. A search was made and the milestone was found near an old hedgerow.

It was restored by the Milestone Society and re-erected in a safe place alongside the service road along Highway A1 which replaced the Old North Road. This service road was the original alignment of that road, much like parts of the Old Route 66 are now service roads running alongside the interstates. By the way, Britain's interstates are called Motorways, or "M"s.

This is in Lower Caldecote.

Old Roads Are Great, No Matter Where You Find Them. --RoadDog