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milestone, Mungrisdale
site name:-   road, Penrith to Keswick
civil parish:-   Mungrisdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY36902733 (?) 
1Km square:-   NY3627
10Km square:-   NY32


photograph
BWD77.jpg  Cast iron:-
"PENRITH / 10 MILES / KESWICK / 8 MILES" (taken 26.3.2012)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 57 10) 
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.
"Penrith .. 10 Keswick .. 9 M.S."

hearsay:-  
The milestone with its plate had been moved to a garden wall. The original plate has been reinstated on a new stone.

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