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milestone, Stanwix Rural (4)
site name:-   road, Carlisle to Brampton N
locality:-   Low Crosby
locality:-   Crosby-on-Eden
civil parish:-   Stanwix Rural (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY44525950
1Km square:-   NY4459
10Km square:-   NY45


photograph
BMO23.jpg  Cast plates on a stone:-
"TO CARLISLE 4 MILES / TO NEWCASTLE 52 MILES" (taken 25.8.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 17 9) 
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. Carlisle .. 4 Newcastle .. 52"

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
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
D4NY45NE.jpg
"4"
milestone; from Carlisle towards Newcastle 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE TO WEST OF THE STAG INN / / / STANWIX RURAL / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77666 / NY4452259500"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone. Probably 1758, for the Carlisle-Newcastle Military Road. Sandstone, cast-iron plates. Chamfered stone to give 2 faces in direction of traffic, one face with cast plate TO CARLISLE 4 MILES, other face TO NEWCASTLE 52 MILES, both in 4 lines. Whitewashed over and lettering picked-out in black. In 1811 this became the Carlisle-Temon Turnpike. Each milestone is clearly drawn on Hodgskinson and Donald's map of Cumberland Westmorland, surveyed 1770."

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