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milestone, Haile
site name:-   road, Egremont to Calder Bridge (?) 
civil parish:-   Haile (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY05501012
1Km square:-   NY0510
10Km square:-   NY01
references:-   OS County Series


photograph
BSX96.jpg (taken 13.7.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 73) 
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.
"HALE 2 WILTON 1½EGREMONT 3 M.S."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE AT NY 055101 / / / HAILE / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76323 / NY0550110128"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone to north-west angle of T-junction. Probably early C19. Ashlar. Square post with pyramidal cap. 3 adjacent faces inscribed: to front: "To/HAILE/1 MILE"; to left: "TO/WILTON/ - 1/2 MILES"; to right: "TO/EGREMONT/ - MILES"."


photograph
BSX97.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"TO / Haile / 2 Mile[s]" (taken 13.7.2010)  
photograph
BSX98.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"TO / Wilton [ ]½Miles / TO Egremont / [ ] Miles" (taken 13.7.2010)  

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