The Milestones Project - CPRE Award
We were fortunate to be nominated for and subsequently win an award at the CPRE Gloucestershire Rural Excellence Awards Ceremony 2019
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CPRE noted:
Maisemore Milestones Restoration
Maisemore village lies on the route of the Gloucester to Worcester turnpike via Upton-on-Severn. In the late 1700s the Gloucester to Worcester Trust required the erection of milestones. These were placed at mile intervals and marked the distance from Gloucester measured to a toll house at Westgate Bridge. In Maisemore Parish the route was realigned in the early 1800s and is now the A417 and replacement milestones were erected. There were three milestones in the Parish but by the beginning of this century two had disappeared. This project, the brainchild of the Maisemore Local History Society, has seen their recovery and reinstatement. Milestones in each parish were different, those in Maisemore being limestone posts bearing a distinctive iron plaque with the distance to Gloucester marked on it and with the old spelling of GLOSTER. Replacement plaques were sourced from an iron works in Telford and fitted to the milestones. It was big job to reinstate Milestones 1 and 3 as close as possible to their original locations. This was successfully achieved with the help of Gloucestershire County Council and a local contractor ‘Compete Utilities’
The society received a plaque which has been installed by Milestone 2 and each participant had a certificate:
Maisemore Milestones Restoration
Maisemore village lies on the route of the Gloucester to Worcester turnpike via Upton-on-Severn. In the late 1700s the Gloucester to Worcester Trust required the erection of milestones. These were placed at mile intervals and marked the distance from Gloucester measured to a toll house at Westgate Bridge. In Maisemore Parish the route was realigned in the early 1800s and is now the A417 and replacement milestones were erected. There were three milestones in the Parish but by the beginning of this century two had disappeared. This project, the brainchild of the Maisemore Local History Society, has seen their recovery and reinstatement. Milestones in each parish were different, those in Maisemore being limestone posts bearing a distinctive iron plaque with the distance to Gloucester marked on it and with the old spelling of GLOSTER. Replacement plaques were sourced from an iron works in Telford and fitted to the milestones. It was big job to reinstate Milestones 1 and 3 as close as possible to their original locations. This was successfully achieved with the help of Gloucestershire County Council and a local contractor ‘Compete Utilities’
The society received a plaque which has been installed by Milestone 2 and each participant had a certificate:
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