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| milestone, Blennerhasset and Torpenhow | ||
| site name:- | road, Cockermouth to Carlisle | |
| locality:- | High Woodnock | |
| civil parish:- | Blennerhasset and Torpenhow (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | milestone | |
| coordinates:- | NY19064009 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1940 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY14 | |
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 BMS39.jpg Cast iron plate on a stone:- "CARLISLE 18 MILES / WIGTON 7 MILES / COCKERMOUTH 8½MILES" (taken 29.9.2006) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 36 11) |
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| 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. "Carlisle .. 18 Wigton .. 7 Cockermouth .. 8 1/2 M.S" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "MILESTONE SOUTH WEST OF KIRKLAND GREEN / / A595 / BLENNERHASSET AND TORPENHOW / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72313 / NY1906540099" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Milestone. Late C18 or early c19 for the Carlisle-Cockermouth Turnpike. Red sandstone, cast-iron plate. Rounded-top stone with curved face, plate to front with raised letters CARLISLE 17 MILES, WIGTON 7 MILES, COCKERMOUTH 8 1/2 MILES. Whitewashed with lettering picked out in black." |
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