{"id":580,"date":"2009-02-01T22:02:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T21:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/?p=580"},"modified":"2009-02-01T22:02:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T21:02:47","slug":"furlongs-from-kirkby-stephen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/2009\/02\/furlongs-from-kirkby-stephen\/","title":{"rendered":"Furlongs from Kirkby Stephen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the junction of the A685 Market Street and the B6259 Nateby Road\u00a0(NY 775 085)\u00a0in Kirkby Stephen is a unique road sign.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_584\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-584\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ks_furlong_sign_gallery1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-584\" title=\"Gallery 1 - Kirkby Stephen Furlong sign\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ks_furlong_sign_gallery1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Kirkby Stephen Furlong sign\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirkby Stephen Furlong sign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The black and white fingerpost sign, set a little higher than the road, is unusual because the distance measurements are in furlongs and not, as is customary, miles.<\/p>\n<p>The furlong, now used mainly as the distances in horse racing,\u00a0originating in Anglo-Saxon England is the \u00a0equivalent to 220 yd or 201.168 m.<\/p>\n<p>Searching the web and little is reported about the history of the sign. \u00a0Maybe you can add to this article by using the comments section below?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the junction of the A685 Market Street and the B6259 Nateby Road\u00a0(NY 775 085)\u00a0in Kirkby Stephen is a unique road sign. The black and white fingerpost sign, set a little higher than the road, is unusual because the distance measurements are in furlongs and not, as is customary, miles. The furlong, now used mainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[692,701,691,702,689,703,395,700,699,694],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-transport","tag-anglo-saxon-england","tag-comments-section","tag-distances","tag-furlong","tag-furlongs","tag-horse-racing","tag-kirkby-stephen","tag-measurements","tag-searching-the-web","tag-yd","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}