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Buck Stone, Lancashire
Buck Stone
county:-   Lancashire
locality type:-   boundary stone (?) 
locality type:-   stone
locality type:-   county boundary mark
coordinates:-   SD52267466
1Km square:-   SD5274
10Km square:-   SD57
old boundary
locality:-   Westmorland boundary


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BMN57.jpg (taken 20.8.2006)  
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BMN58.jpg (taken 20.8.2006)  

evidence:-   possibly old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria etc, ie Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire etc, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, 1595, edition 1613-16.
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stone near the county boundary with Lancashire 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.3
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evidence:-   old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 38) 
placename:-  Birk Stone
source data:-   Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, continuation of the Road from London to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.
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OG38m242.jpg
In mile 243, Lancashire.  "Birk stone"
a stone, just south of the Lancashire Westmorland county boundary. 
item:-  JandMN : 21
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen 1720 (plate 93) 
placename:-  Birk Stone
source data:-   Strip maps, uncoloured engravings, road maps, The Road from London to Carlisle, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, with sections in Lancashire and Westmorland, published by Emanuel Bowen, St Katherines, London, 1720.
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B093m242.jpg
In mile 243, Lancashire.  "Birk Stone"
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.100
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Birkstone
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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"Birkstone"
block, east side of road, Lancashire side of county boundary Westmorland Lancashire 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old text:- Harper 1907
placename:-  Buckstone, The
source data:-   HP01p094.txt
Page 94:-  "... a huge granite crag, called from time immemorial "the Buckstone," stands in the hedgerow and recalls the trials of travellers in a bygone age, when roads were little better than winding tracks and sign-posts did not exist. They went, those palpitating travellers, as directed, "past the Buckstone," standing for centuries as sure a landmark as anything in this countryside. And now it is forgotten, except by the farming and field-folk and those whose business or pleasure is in the byways and hedges. ..."
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HP01p097.txt
Page 97:-  "..."
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"THE BUCKSTONE."
"..."
item:-  JandMN : 1055.4
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