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How Mill Station, How
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How Mill Station
site name:-   Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
locality:-   How Mill
locality:-   How
civil parish:-   Hayton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station (gone) 
coordinates:-   NY50995654
1Km square:-   NY5056
10Km square:-   NY55
SummaryText:-   Opened about 1838; closed 1959.


photograph
BOD66.jpg  Fingerpost, half a mile away.
(taken 7.9.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 24 4) 
placename:-  How Mill Station
item:-  railway signalrailway milepost
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.
image  click to enlarge
CSRY0011.jpg
"How Mill Station / S.P. / M.P."

evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  How Mill Station
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
image
GAR2NY55.jpg
"How Mill Sta."
dot by railway 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   probably old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  How Mill
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
image  click to enlarge
POF7Cm.jpg
"How Mill"
map date 1909 

evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  How Mill Station
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
image  click to enlarge
PF10Cm.jpg
"How Mill Sta."
map date 1892 

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images courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Hampshire CC Museums

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