Mile post 44, near Uckfield, East Sussex
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RocketRon47
N 50° 57.506 E 000° 06.392
31U E 296802 N 5649188
Mile post 44 near Uckfield, East Sussex
Waymark Code: WM5E9P
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/27/2008
Views: 7
Mile post on old main road through Uckfield, Eastbourne Road, near Uckfield showing distance of 44 miles from St Mary Le Bow Church [Bow Bells] in the City of London. Hence the bells on the post.
Bow bells were made famous as it was these bells that made Dick Whittington return to London and become Lord Mayor and also in the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons" where Bow bells authority ends the rhyme "I do not know says the Great Bell of Bow".
It is these bells that if you are born within the sound of determines that you are a Cockney or true Londoner.
Condition: Distressed
Material: Metal
Inscription:
Just the distance "44"
Name of road: Eastbourne Road
Date placed: Not listed
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