An innovative project by year 6 pupils to design a new milestone for an East Lancashire village has won an award.

Pupils from St John’s C.E voluntary aided primary school in Cliviger created a special milestone to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and King Charles’s Coronation, which was installed in May.

Believed to be the first authentic milestone installed in Lancashire for two centuries, its quirky design has brightened up the outside of the school.

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And last month, the Milestone Society presented headteacher Naomi Healey with the first certificate of their award scheme that recognises “an outstanding contribution to preserving and promoting the milestones and other roadside heritage features of the British Isles”.

The scheme was only launched in October 2023 and the school, along with Cliviger Parish Council, are the inaugural recipients.

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Cllr Ivor Emo, Cliviger Parish Council chairman, also received the same award in recognition of the restoration of the historic milestones and boundary stones in the parish.

Work on both projects was completed by Shane Johnstone a sculptor and artist based in Morecambe and was funded through the Coal Clough Windfarm Scottish Power Renewables Community Benefit Fund.

Rob Westlake, chairman of The Milestone Society said: “Our members were blown away by the innovative ideas by the year 6 pupils whose creative design, to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee,  was developed by Shane.

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“He used new materials to create an old milestone now standing proudly outside the school. It’s a perfect complement to the restoration by Cliviger Parish Council of the historic milestones and boundary stones in the parish.

“We look forward to hearing about similar roadside heritage restoration projects worthy of an award.”

Working with Shane, the children came up with the idea for the milestone, spelling out their love for Burnley Football Club and the moon.

The new stone with inscribed lettering shows the distances from the village to Turf Moor and the moon and back and matches the exact dimensions of the familiar white milestones seen locally.