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milestone, Old Hutton and Holmescales (3)
site name:-   road, Kendal to Kirkby Lonsdale
locality:-   Middleshaw
civil parish:-   Old Hutton and Holmescales (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   SD55388924
1Km square:-   SD5589
10Km square:-   SD58


photograph
BLV17.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"KIRKBY LONSDALE 8 / KENDAL 4" (taken 9.4.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 39 14) 
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.P. KENDAL .. 4. KIRKBY LONSDALE .. 8."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE ON EAST SIDE OF ROAD 300 YARDS NORTH- WEST OF MIDDLESHAW CRESCENT / / B6254 / OLD HUTTON AND HOLMESCALES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76705 / SD5534789286"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone. Possibly early C19. Monolithic stone c.2 ft high and triangular in plan with domical top and ruled dressing. Painted white with sans-serif lettering and numbers picked out in black: KIRKBY LONSDALE 8 (north face); KENDAL 4 (south face)."

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