Dorset/Traditional Fingerpost Junctions

At many junctions within Dorset, and prior to any national standardisation or signing scheme, fingerpost direction signs were erected to aid navigation. These were mainly coloured white (although some red variants exist), and directed road users to nearby localities with distances.

The fingerposts in Dorset had another design feature - that of a roundal (or dial) with the name of the junction and grid reference.

Many of these still surive - this is a list of those which still survive.

Name	Location	Roads	Type
Hell Corner	Melbury Bubb	unclassified	T-Junction
Red Post (Winterborne Tomson)	Winterborne Tomson	A31	Crossroads
Red Post (Poyntington)	Poyntington	B3145	T junction
Red Post (Benville)	Benville		triange junction
Sadborow	Sadborow	unclassified	T-Junction
Moorside	Moorside	unclassified	T-Junction
Sixpenny Handley	Sixpenny Handley	B3081	T-Junction
God's Blessing Green	Holt, Wimborne Minster	unclassified	T-Junction
Bonfire Hill	Alderholt	B3078	T-Junction
Cuckoo Hill	Yetminster	unclassified	triangle junction
Blaneys Corner	Lytchett Matravers	unclassified	T-Junction
Higher Cross	Lytchett Matravers	unclassified	Crossroads
Cock and Bottle	East Morden	B3075	Crossroads
Two Gates	Eggardon Hill	unclassified	T-Junction
Steepleton Pond	Winterbourne Steepleton	B3159	Staggered Crossroads
Charminster Cross	Charminster	A352	Crossroads
Cattistock Halt	Cattistock		Crossroads
Whitehall	Tollerford, Maiden Newton	A356	Crossroads
Quarr Cross	Quarr	unclassified	Crossroads
Presseys Corner	Alderholt	B3078	Crossroads
Jubilee Cross	Corfe Mullen	A350	Crossroads
Brownes Corner	Frampton	A356	T Junction
Buckland Ripers	Buckland Ripers		T Junction
White Post Gate	Oborne	B3145	Crossroads
Three Legged Cross	Three Legged Cross	B3072	Staggered crossroads
Throop Clump	Throop	unclassified	Crossroads
Woodlands Cross	Woodlands	unclassified	Crossroads
Slaughtergate	Gillingham	unclassified	T junction
Amen Corner	Gussage All Saints	unclassified	Crossroads
Ton Bridge	Gussage All Saints	unclassified	T Junction
Tenantrees	West Knighton	unclassified	T Junction
Hell Corner (Chalbury)	Chalbury	unclassified	T-Junction
Horseshoes	Holt	unclassified	Crossroads
Brake Cross	Iwerne Courtney	unclassified	Crossroads
The Stocks (Edmondsham)	Edmondsham	unclassified	T-Junction
Stocks Cross	Colehill/Furzehill	unclassified	Crossroads
Charing Cross (Alderholt)	Alderholt	B3078	T-Junction
Durweston Cross	Durweston	A357	Crossroads
Finger Corner	Marnhull	unclassified	Crossroads
Park Corner	Morden	A35, B3075	Off Set Give Way Crossroads
Newton Cross	Sturminster Marshall	A350	Crossroads
Shearings Cross	Thorncombe	unclassified	T-Junction
Bernard's Place	Broadwindsor	B3162, B3164	Crossroads
Sand Pits	Drimpton	B3162	T Junction and Crossroads
Lamb House Farm	Shillingstone	A357	T Junction
Cross Lanes	Melcombe Bingham		Crossorads
Bailie Cross	Sturminster Marshall	A350	Crossroads

Links

• Twitter: Dorset Fingerposts
• Dorset Life: Time of the signs (archive.org) (January 2015)