button to main menu  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Dead Stones, Alston Moor
Dead Stones
civil parish:-   Alston Moor (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   stone
locality type:-   boundary stone (?) 
locality type:-   county boundary mark
coordinates:-   NY79373992 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY7939
10Km square:-   NY73
county:-   Durham
current boundary
locality:-   Cumbria boundary
old boundary
locality:-   Cumberland boundary

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 42 12) 
placename:-  Dead Stones
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Edstones
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
image
D4NY83NW.jpg
"Edstones"
2 stones on hill, on county boundary 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.