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milestone, Middleton (3)
site name:-   road, Kirkby Lonsdale to Sedbergh
civil parish:-   Middleton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   SD62938943
1Km square:-   SD6289
10Km square:-   SD68


photograph
BLT34.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"S 3 / K.L 7¾" (taken 31.3.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 40 13) 
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. Kirkby Lonsdale .. 7 3/4 Sedbergh .. 3"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE APPROXIMATELY 320 METRES SOUTH OF MIDDLETON BRIDGE / / A683 / MIDDLETON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75730 / SD6293889420"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone. Probably early C19. Painted stone. Semi-circular on plan, on square base with broaches. Inscribed: "S:KL/3:73/4". Set on Sedbergh to Greta Bridge turnpike road, 1762. (S = Sedbergh; KL = Kirkby Lonsdale)."

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