Another door to nowhere, this entrance way reminded me a little of some kind of shrine… although to what, who knows, as there are only dead leaves within. I remain ignorant of its true original purpose. It could potentially have been a one man bandstand, I suppose.

Whatever its true function, it can be found in Peel Park in Bradford; I point out that it is in Bradford as it turns out there are a lot of Peel Parks in England. Apparently being Prime Minister twice and inventing the police force makes you quite popular: many such parks, including this one, were crowdfunded after Robert Peel’s death.

Yet the reason this door piqued my curiosity has nothing to do with the boys in blue, or indeed, any Bobbies.

The first time I encountered this door, I was out for a jog, and, while whizzing wheezing past, noticed what looked like the Japanese character for tree carved into one of the stones on the left hand side.

Which seemed a little random.

Then I stumbled across some information that stone masons often used to include little marks to show where a stone would be cut. I reasoned that that would explain what I saw, and mused on the coincidences of our world.

But it is neither of those things.

It is, instead, a bench mark – once used by Ordnance Surveyors to determine height above sea level (more on that here) and found absolutely everywhere – there’s even another one in Peel Park according to the map here.

No plans yet to start another of my Daft Lists involving these marks. Who knows though…