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milestone, Allonby
site name:-   road, Wigton to Workington
locality:-   Allonby
civil parish:-   Allonby (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY08044251
1Km square:-   NY0842
10Km square:-   NY04


photograph
BNV66.jpg  ?Defaced, pretty illegible, inscribed stone:-
"[ / 11 / / 12 ]" (taken 20.6.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 35 6) 
placename:-  
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. Workington .. 11 Wigton .. 12"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE NORTH OF CHRIST CHURCH / / / ALLONBY / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 410415 / NY0803742492"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone. Late C18 or early C19 for the Wigton-Workington Turnpike. Whitewashed stone. Round-topped stone inscribed on front WIGTON 12, WORKINGTON 11."

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