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milestone, Firbank (2)
site name:-   road, Kirkby Lonsdale to Low Borrowbridge
civil parish:-   Firbank (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   SD62439479
1Km square:-   SD6294
10Km square:-   SD69


photograph
BLT13.jpg  inscribed stone:-
"B.B 4¾K.L 11 [ ]" ie Borrow Bridge and Kirkby Lonsdale
(taken 31.3.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 34) 
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.S. BORROW BRIDGE [ ] KIRKBY LONSDALE [ ]"

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 34 16) 
placename:-  
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.
"MS. Burrow Bridge .. 4 [3/4] Kirkby Lonsdale .. 11 [1/4]"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE AT SD 624 947 / / B6257 / FIRBANK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75647 / SD6243194792"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone. Early C19. Painted stone. Semicircular on plan, on square base with broaches to angles. Inscribed: "BB : KL/43/4" : 113/4". Placed on the Sedbrgh to Grayrigg turnpike road, 1762. (BB - Borrow Bridge, KL = Kirkby Lonsdaie)."

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