| Description | Dated 29 June 1971. Typed attachment 'Badly weather-worn, the stone stands on the Holyhead Road in Handsworth, now a suberb, but up to 1911 a separate village and local authority. The distances given, London 111 miles and Birmingham 3 miles are reasonably accurate, which is more than can be said of many. From the lettering, it would appear to date form the late eighteenth century, being propably one of those erected as a result of the General Turnpike Act of 1766, which made their provision compulsory.' |