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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


photograph
BMS39.jpg  Cast iron plate on a stone:-
"CARLISLE 18 MILES / WIGTON 7 MILES / COCKERMOUTH 8½MILES" (taken 29.9.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 36 11) 
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"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE SOUTH WEST OF KIRKLAND GREEN / / A595 / BLENNERHASSET AND TORPENHOW / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72313 / NY1906540099"
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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