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milestone, Preston Patrick
site name:-   road, Kendal to Kirkby Lonsdale
locality:-   Nook
civil parish:-   Preston Patrick (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   SD54558200
1Km square:-   SD5482
10Km square:-   SD58


photograph
BOT64.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"KENDAL / 8 / MILNTHORPE / 4½" (taken 7.3.2008)  
photograph
BOT65.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"KIRKBY / LONSDALE / 5" (taken 7.3.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 43 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. Kendal .. 8 Kirkby Lonsdale .. 5 Milnthorpe .. 4 1/2"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE APPROXIMATELY 75 METRES NORTH OF SUMMERDALE HOUSE / / A65 / PRESTON PATRICK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76615 / SD5455082000"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone. Probably early C19. Limestone. Upright post with flat top and deep chamfers to front corners. Painted black and white with deeply-incised sans-serif lettering and numbers in sunken oval panels:-"
"KIRKBY / LONSDALE / 5"
"to West and"
"KENDAL / 8 / MILNTHORPE / 5"
"to East."

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