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guide stone, Alston
locality:-   Townfoot
locality:-   Alston
civil parish:-   Alston Moor (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   guide stone
coordinates:-   NY71744648
1Km square:-   NY7146
10Km square:-   NY74


photograph
BOK08.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"ALSTON TO / MILES / HEXHAM 25½/ PENRITH 19 / BRAMPTON 20 / MIDDLETON 22 / STANHOPE 21" (taken 9.7.2007)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE SET INTO ROUNDED CORNER OF WALL TO WEST OF TOWN HALL / / FRONT STREET / ALSTON MOOR / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73115 / NY7173746484"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone, early C19 for Alston Turnpike Trust. Single stone c4 ft high by c2 ft wide with elliptical top; set into wall with only face showing. Painted white with carved sans-serif lettering picked out in black: ALSTON. TO HEXHAM 23 1/2 MILES, PENRITH 19, BRAMPTON 20, MIDDLETON 22, STANHOPE 21."

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