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milestone, Preston Patrick (3)
site name:-   road, Kendal to Kirkby Lonsdale
civil parish:-   Preston Patrick (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   SD57758537
1Km square:-   SD5785
10Km square:-   SD58


photograph
BPW43.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"KIRKBY LONSDALE 5 / KENDAL 7" (taken 2.1.2009)  
photograph
BPW44.jpg  Rivet bench mark on top.
(taken 2.1.2009)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 43 7) 
placename:-  
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.
"MS Kendal .. 7 Kirkby Lonsdale .. 5"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE APPROXIMATELY 180 METRES NORTH WEST OF ENTRANCE TO BARKIN HOUSE / / B6254 / PRESTON PATRICK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76626 / SD5774785377"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone. Probably early C19. Dressed limestone. Upright stone with round head and deep chamfers (no stops visible at time of survey) to front corners. Painted black and white with numbers in oval panels:"
"5 / KIRKBY- / LONSDALE"
"on North-West"
"7 / KENDAL"
"on South-East side."
"A variant of a type listed in neighbouring Parishes."

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