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milestone, Alston Moor (8)
site name:-   road, Alston to Barnard Castle
civil parish:-   Alston Moor (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY74994197
1Km square:-   NY7441
10Km square:-   NY74


photograph
BMI58.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"ALSTON 4 / MIDDLETON 18" (taken 7.7.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 42 6) 
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 Middleton .. 18"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE TO EAST OF BUNKERSHILL / / B6277 / ALSTON MOOR / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73102 / NY7498941975"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone, early C19 for Alston Turnpike Trust. Single stone c2 ft high by c1 1/2 ft wide with elliptical top; painted white with carved Roman lettering on front face picked out in black: ALSTON 4, MIDDLETON 18."

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