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milestone, Irthington (4)
site name:-   road, Carlisle to Brampton N
civil parish:-   Irthington (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY49195999
1Km square:-   NY4959
10Km square:-   NY45
references:-   OS County Series


photograph
BSE05.jpg  Cast iron plates on stone:-
"TO NEW / CASTLE / 49 / MILES" "TO CAR / LISLE / 7 / MILES" (taken 19.2.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 17 11) 
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.
"M.S Newcastle .. 49 Carlisle .. 7"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE NY 49170 59980 / / / IRTHINGTON / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77912 / NY4918059994"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone. Probably 1758, for the Carlisle-Newcastle Military Road. Sandstone, cast-iron plates. Chamfered stone to give 2 faces in direction of traffic, one face with cast plate in 4 lines CARLISLE 7 MILES, other face TO NEWCASTLE 49 MILES in 4 lines. Whitewashed over and lettering picked-out in black. In 1811 the road became the Carlisle-Temon Turnpike. Each milestone is clearly drawn on Hodgkinson and Donalds map of Cumberland and Westmorland, surveyed 1770."


photograph
CEL77.jpg  Cast iron plates on stone:-
"TO NEW / CASTLE / 49 / MILES" "TO CAR / LISLE / 7 / MILES" (taken 11.5.2014)  courtesy of Terry Moore
Image ©  Terry Moore

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