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Monument record MDR8686 - Bar Brook, guidestone or waymarker

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Marker stone, extremely weathered, at clapper bridge over Bar Brook. Any writing now obliterated. Photographic record. (1) As an aid to navigation and safe passage, not only were guide stoops erected, but also waymarkers (or aiming posts). One of these lies at SK275782 by a slab bridge over Bar Brook. (2)

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Photograph: Peak District National Park Authority (PDNPA). Black and white photograph collection. 29.17A.
  • <2> Bibliographic reference: Smith, H. 2000. The Guide Stoops of Derbyshire. 2nd and Revised Edition.. p 65.

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Location

Grid reference Centred SK 2758 7812 (5m by 6m) (Approximate)
Civil Parish HOLMESFIELD, NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE, DERBYSHIRE

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Record last edited

Oct 21 2013 2:47PM

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