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milestone, Dent (5)
site name:-   road, Sedbergh to Setlle (?) 
locality:-   Cowgill
civil parish:-   Dent (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   SD75618690
1Km square:-   SD7586
10Km square:-   SD78


photograph
BMG63.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"S 9" (taken 16.6.2006)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE (SEDBERGH 9) ON SOUTH SIDE OF ROAD APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH WEST OF COWGILL BRIDGE / / / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484348 / SD7561186906"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone. Early to mid C19. Dressed sandstone, painted white. Square plinth with chamfered corners, semicircular shaft inscribed "S / 9", with rounded top. One of a series of 11 in this parish."

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