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| milestone, Stanwix Rural (4) | ||
| site name:- | road, Carlisle to Brampton N | |
| locality:- | Low Crosby | |
| locality:- | Crosby-on-Eden | |
| civil parish:- | Stanwix Rural (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | milestone | |
| coordinates:- | NY44525950 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4459 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY45 | |
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 BMO23.jpg Cast plates on a stone:- "TO CARLISLE 4 MILES / TO NEWCASTLE 52 MILES" (taken 25.8.2006) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 17 9) |
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| 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. Carlisle .. 4 Newcastle .. 52" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1
inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29
Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774. D4NY45NE.jpg "4" milestone; from Carlisle towards Newcastle item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2 Image © Carlisle Library |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "MILESTONE TO WEST OF THE STAG INN / / / STANWIX RURAL / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77666 / NY4452259500" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Milestone. Probably 1758, for the Carlisle-Newcastle Military Road. Sandstone, cast-iron plates. Chamfered stone to give 2 faces in direction of traffic, one face with cast plate TO CARLISLE 4 MILES, other face TO NEWCASTLE 52 MILES, both in 4 lines. Whitewashed over and lettering picked-out in black. In 1811 this became the Carlisle-Temon Turnpike. Each milestone is clearly drawn on Hodgskinson and Donald's map of Cumberland Westmorland, surveyed 1770." |
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