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An acorn on a post.
Also known as: Long distance path marker, Trail acorn, National route waymark
The device marking a designated long-distance route.
Marks a route as part of a designated national long-distance path.
Contexts: Navigation, Maps
Distinguished from local waymarks by device rather than by colour, so a walker can tell a national route from a parish footpath at a junction where both are marked.
Contexts: Navigation, Maps
Devices differ by country and by network, so the acorn identifies one nation's system and means nothing in another.
Contexts: Navigation, Maps
A small device — an acorn, a shell, a shaped arrow — fixed to a post or a stile, distinct from the ordinary waymarks of local paths.