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milestone, Grayrigg (2)
site name:-   road, Kirkby Lonsdale to Low Borrowbridge
locality:-   Dillicar
civil parish:-   Grayrigg (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   SD61669746
1Km square:-   SD6197
10Km square:-   SD69


photograph
BLT08.jpg  inscribed stone:-
"B.B 2¾ K.L 13¾" ie Borrow Bridge and Kirkby Lonsdale
(taken 31.3.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 34 12) 
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. Borrow Bridge .. 2 3/4 Kirkby Lonsdale .. 13 3/4"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE AT SD 616 974 / / B6257 / GRAYRIGG / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75664 / SD6165697461"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone. Early C19. Painted stone. Semicircular on plan, on square base with broaches to angles. Inscribed: "BB: KL/21/4 : 131/4" (BB = Borrow Bridge; KL = Kirkby Lonsdale). Benchmark to top. Placed on the Sedbergh to Grayrigg turnpike road, 1762."

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