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boundary stone, Longsleddale/Shap Rural (6)
site name:-   Branstree
locality:-   boundary, Longsleddale/Shap Rural
civil parish:-   Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Shap Rural (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   boundary stone
locality type:-   parish boundary mark
locality type:-   estate boundary mark
coordinates:-   NY47730976
1Km square:-   NY4709
10Km square:-   NY40
SummaryText:-   The stone marks ownership, and the parish boundary incidentally.


photograph
BJT21.jpg  Letters 'L' and 'H' either side of a boundary line, on a recumbent stone.
L for Lowther, landowner in Shap Rural parish to the north; H for Harrison landowner in Longsleddale.
(taken 7.9.2004)  

evidence:-   map:- OS Six Inch (1956) 
source data:-   Map series, various editions with the national grid, scale about 6 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, scale 1 to 10560 from 1950s to 1960s, then 1 to 10000 from 1960s to 2000s, superseded by print on demand from digital data.
image
SINY4709.jpg
"B.S."

:-  
The boundary stone is lying down with letters either side of a boundary line:-
"H / L"
The boundary is between lands owned by Harrison and Lowther, and incidentally a parish boundary between Longsleddale and Shap Rural.

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