Boundary Marker Stones

Here in Google Steeets View

Behind the cul-de-sac sign. I suspect it's been moved.

If you could see the wall it is an old structure that used to carry on to the left. The building of the fire Station in the 1960's may have put paid to the rest of the wall.

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[IMG]/community/76349=4803-Sopley 800-01.jpg[/img] Sopley, Hampshire. Passing and noticed this one, there may be one on each corner?

Richard

Here are a few of the AM boundary markers that I have found on my travels around the outskirts of Duxford Airfield.
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Denis;76305 wrote:

I found this example, albeit not airfield related,
in Old London Road Hertford, next to the fire station.

I can help you with this one as it relates to both my local and family history, this was the old Hertford Militia barracks

....Raised under the Militia act, 1757, the Hertfordshire Militia had a continuous existence in the county from 1758 to 1920.Initially raised by ballot from the 'Militia Lists', the force was recognised on a voluntary basis with the ballot in reserve in 1852.

Recruits did their two months' initial training at the depot of the 16th foot (the Bedfordshire Regiment) at Kempston, Bedford and were then liable for a period of training with the unit every year. Later redesignated as the 4th Battalion the Bedfordshire Regiment, the Hertfordshire militia saw service in South Africa, 1900-02 and in France and Flanders, 1916-18.... J.D. Sainsbury

the other marker on the Old London Road boundary I think is also still there too.


the 3rd marker is probably visible from the Focus DIY stores yard.

Thanks for the update Jenna, I was beginning to think that someone had 'planted' it in the wall and that it was not relevant to the site.

These stones are at the Whittington Barracks Range in Staffordshire andi assume there were 34 in all whether they encompassed the Barracks or just the range i cannot say.
Interestingly no 33 is obviously a replacement that looks "modern at least post war. This implys a purpose it appears to have a socket on the top face .Possibly it could have been erected for use a datum point in surveying.

We appear to have two threads on boundary markers/stones , the other thread being here ;
www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/f...ndary-markers#165560
but this thread is already cross-referenced on it !

I subscribe to 'Ghostsigns : Faded painted signs with Sam Roberts' , whose Homepage is here ; www.ghostsigns.co.uk/ .

His February 2021 newsletter has an illustration of a Boundary Marker dated both 1682 and 1885 in the area of Artillery Lane in the Spitalfields Artillery Grounds ;

Artillery Lane (formerly Street)
The corner in question is found at the junction of what are now known as Artliiery Passage (the alleyway) and Artillery Lane. These names (and nearby Gun Street) were given to the streets by developers to reference the area's former use as weaponry practise grounds, established by Henry VIII.

We can see the cast iron street name plate for Artillery Lane in Philip Marriage's 1980s photograph but, by the time he revisited in 2011 this had disappeared, leaving the remnant of a hand-painted sign from an earlier era of the street being known as Artillery Street.

The cast iron sign would date from between 1856, when the original ten London postal districts were created, and 1917 when the numerical designations were added e.g. E1. It isn't clear when the transition from Street to Lane took place. From 'The Survey of London: Volume 27, Spitalfields and Mile End New Town, London, 1957', Chapter XIV - Artillery Passage and South Side of Artillery Lane:

"In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Artillery Passage was commonly known as Smock Alley and the eastern part of Artillery Lane outside the Old Artillery Ground was usually known as Raven Row, though it was sometimes also known as Smock Alley and sometimes as Artillery Street or Lane."
Although the Artillery Lane cast iron street name plate has been lost, the corresponding one for Artillery Passage has survived.

There is also the remnant of a painted sign for Artillery Passage between the two most visible ghost signs on the curved portion of wall on the corner.

Boundary Marker
On the lower portion of the curved wall is boundary marker, designating the border of the former Old Artillery Grounds and Spitalfields. There are two painted dates straddling the metal arrow. They are 1682 when the Old Artillery Grounds designation was established in the process of leasing the land for development, and 1885, which is when the area became a parish. The Waymarking site has more on this boundary marker with links to more detailed information, as does page 3 of this document.

Link here ; www.patreon.com/posts/cluster-of-ghost-4...f3&mc_eid=4831dd728c although you may well have to subscribe to see it but there is no fee involved . Which is why I signed up !