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milestone, Shap (4)
site name:-   road, Kendal to Shap
locality:-   Shap
civil parish:-   Shap (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY56651423
1Km square:-   NY5614
10Km square:-   NY51


photograph
BJT53.jpg  Stone, by the entrance to the Greyhound Hotel:-
"To / Kandal X6 / Penrith X1 / Miles" (taken 22.8.2005)  

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5NY51SE.jpg
"15"
milestone marked by road 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

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