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milestone, Egremont
site name:-   road, Egremont to Whitehaven
civil parish:-   Egremont (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY00411281
1Km square:-   NY0012
10Km square:-   NY01


photograph
BOJ67.jpg  There could have been two cast iron plates.
(taken 7.12.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 72) 
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. WHITEHAVEN [ ] CALDER BRIDGE [ ]"
on old road 

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE TO SOUTH EAST OF BIGRIGG / / A595 / EGREMONT / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76119 / NY0041212818"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone, mid C19. Single sandstone block c2 ft high with chamfered top; square in plan, set diagonally to road. Painted white with rectangular cast-iron plate to south face; border and raised sans-serif lettering picked out in black: TO WHITEHAVEN 4 MILES. Plate missing from north face"

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