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milestone, Whitwell and Selside (4)
site name:-   road, Kendal to Shap
locality:-   Gateside
civil parish:-   Whitwell and Selside (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   SD52859951
1Km square:-   SD5299
10Km square:-   SD59


photograph
BJW33.jpg  Cast iron.
"SHAP 11 MILES / 1825 / KENDAL 5 MILES" (taken 29.9.2005)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 8) 
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.
"M.S. Shap .. 11 Kendal .. 5"
""

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILEPOST TO WEST OF NORTH GATESIDE / / A6 / WHITWELL AND SELSIDE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75766 / SD5285699512"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milepost. Dated 1825. Cast iron. Half-hexagonal with concave faces and domed cap. Lettering on panels to sides reading; to left: "SHAP/11/MILES"; to right: "KENDAL/5/MILES"; date to centre. One of a series of mileposts on the Heron Syke to Eamont Bridge turnpike road, 1753."

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