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milestone, Cartmel
site name:-   road, Kents Bank to Sand Gate
locality:-   Cartmel
civil parish:-   Lower Allithwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
locality type:-   guide stone
locality type:-   sands road
coordinates:-   SD37977865
1Km square:-   SD3778
10Km square:-   SD37


photograph
BLU45.jpg  Stone, carved and painted, 1826.
(taken 7.4.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 17) 
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. LANCASTER 15 ULVERSTON 7"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GUIDESTONE AT CORNER OF THE CAUSEWAY APPROXIMATELY 7 METRES SOUTH OF ST MARYS LODGE / / / LOWER ALLITHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76968 / SD3797478661"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone. c1836. Stone. Slab, approximately square, set into stone wall. Top panel has lettering: "LANCASTER/OVER SANDS 15 MILES/ULVERSTON/OVER SANDS 7 MILES", the place names and figures are raised. Lettering below reads: "GRANGE/CARK", with 2 pointing hands."

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