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milestone, Alston Moor (17)
site name:-   road, Alston to Stanhope (?) 
locality:-   Skelgill
civil parish:-   Alston Moor (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY73394624
1Km square:-   NY7346
10Km square:-   NY74


photograph
BUJ36.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"NENTHEAD 3½ / ALSTON 1 / COPTHILL 8¾" (taken 23.4.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 34 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. Alston .. 1"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE TO SOUTH WEST OF SKELGILLRIGG / / A689 / ALSTON MOOR / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73091 / NY7339546236"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone, probably C19 for Alston Turnpike Trust. Single stone c2 1/2 ft high with 2 angled front faces and angled top; painted white with carved sans-serif lettering picked out in black: NENTHEAD 3 1/2 to top, ALSTON 1 to left, and COPTHILL 83/4 to right."

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