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milestone, Glassonby
site name:-   road, Penrith to Alston
civil parish:-   Glassonby (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY67274232
1Km square:-   NY6742
10Km square:-   NY64


photograph
BMI89.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"ALSTON 4 / PENRITH 15" and a ?cut bench mark.
(taken 7.7.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 41) 
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. ALSTON 4 PENRITH 15"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE WEST OF MEATHAW HILL / / A686 / GLASSONBY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73448 / NY6727142328"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone. Probably early C19 for the Penrith-Alston Turnpike. Whitewashed stone. Round top squared stone, has incised lettering on face ALSTON 4, PENRITH 15, in 4 lines, picked out in black, with bench mark above."

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