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boundary stone, Longsleddale/Shap Rural (4)
site name:-   Adam Seat
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:-   NY47110908
1Km square:-   NY4709
10Km square:-   NY40

photograph
BJD23.jpg  South face letter 'H', roughly 6 inches high
H for Harrison, the landowner in Longsleddale parish, to the south.
(taken 7.9.2004)  
photograph
BJD24.jpg  North face letter 'L', roughly 6 inches high.
L for Lowther, landowner in Shap Rural parish to the north.
(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the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, scale 1 to 10560 from 1950s to 1960s, then 1 to 10000 from 1960s to 2000s, superseded by print on demand from digital data.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."

photograph
BJD26.jpg  Jean on Adam Seat, on a boundary stone search.
(taken 7.9.2004)  
:-  
 The boundary stone is prominent on the top of Adam Seat. The fence line now misses the stone, curving by to the north. The north/south faces of the stone are marked:-
"L / H"
in neatly serifed letters about 6 inches high.
The boundary is on a parish boundary between Longsleddale and Shap; but the boundary distinction is between landowners to north, Lowther in Shap Rural, and south, Harrison in Longsleddale.
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