{"id":21858,"date":"2019-01-03T20:51:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21858"},"modified":"2019-01-03T20:51:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T19:51:07","slug":"abingdon-milestones-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21858","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Milestones Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This quiz is about old style stone milestones to be found at the side of the road. They are not the milestones in project management.<\/p>\n<p>All the milestones have a distance to Abingdon, and a distance to another place. So where would you find them?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19010301.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Milestones\" \/><br \/>\nA. Isley 9, Abingdon 2<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19010302a.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Milestones\" \/><br \/>\nB.&nbsp; London LVIII, Abingdon II<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19010303.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Milestones\" \/><br \/>\nC. Oxford 3, Abingdon 3<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19010304.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Milestones\" \/><br \/>\nD. Oxford 1, Abingdon 5<\/p>\n<p>I am no expert and have not attempted to date them. A website called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsswebsite.me.uk\/A%20Short%20History%20of\/waymarks.html\">A Short History of Waymarks<\/a> does help. There is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milestonesociety.co.uk\/\">Milestone Society<\/a>, founded in 2001, for milestone enthusiasts. Members\u2019 interests also include tollhouses, turnpike history and canal milestones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quiz is about old style stone milestones to be found at the side of the road. They are not the milestones in project management. All the milestones have a distance to Abingdon, and a distance to another place. So where would you find them? A. Isley 9, Abingdon 2 B.&nbsp; London LVIII, Abingdon II [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}