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boundary stone, Stainmore (2)
civil parish:-   Stainmore (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   boundary stone
locality type:-   county boundary mark (?) 
coordinates:-   NY83131994
1Km square:-   NY8319
10Km square:-   NY81
county:-   Durham
current boundary
locality:-   Cumbria boundary (?) 
old boundary
locality:-   Westmorland boundary (?) 


photograph
BLX44.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"E 46" (taken 21.4.2006)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BOUNDARY STONE SET AGAINST WALL CIRCA 10 FOOT FROM ROAD / / B6276 (NORTH OF BROUGH) / STAINMORE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73384 / NY8313219942"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Boundary stone; mid C19. Single tapered stone c2 1/2 ft high, square in plan. E45 carved on east face."

hearsay:-  
One of a series of numbered boundary stones, this is number 16. These are alongside a wall built when the moorland was enclosed in the 19th century; the wall a straight line across the fell, dividing Stainmore, Westmorland, and Lunedale, then in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

Winchester, Angus: 2000: Discovering Parish Boundaries: Shire Publications

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