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| Field Memorial, Ulpha | ||
| site name:- | Three Shire Stones | |
| civil parish:- | Ulpha (formerly Cumberland) (etc) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | memorial | |
| coordinates:- | NY27720274 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2702 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY20 | |
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 BLK32.jpg "LANCASHIRE" This is not the county marker. (taken 9.11.2005)  BLK33.jpg The two sides read:- "W F 1816" William Field of Cartmel was roadmaster for Furness, died 1860 after which friends erected this memorial. (taken 9.11.2005) |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "BOUNDARY STONE ON SITE OF THREE SHIRE STONES / / / DUNNERDALE WITH SEATHWAITE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75841 / NY2772202746" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Boundary stone. Dated 1816, when it was carved, but not put into position until c1860. Erected as a memorial to William Field (1770-1860) of Cartmel who served as Bridge-master and High Constable and commissioned the work originally. Single rough-dressed pillar, rectangular in plan and c. 6 ft high; W.F. 1816 appears on the north face and LANCASHIRE on the south, all in raised Roman capitals. Intended by Field to serve as a more conspicuous marker to show the location of the Three Shire Stones which marked the meeting of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire north of the sands. These stones are marked on Saxton's 1610 map of Westmorland but have since disappeared; they were each c. 1 ft high and were arranged in a triangle c. 1 ft apart, each occupying a different county." |
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| observation:- |
This is a personal memorial, plonked down insensitively in the middle of the Three
Shire Stones; this is NOT the Three Shire Stones. |
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