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| boundary stone, Longsleddale/Shap Rural (7) | ||
| site name:- | Branstree | |
| locality:- | boundary, Longsleddale/Shap Rural | |
| civil parish:- | Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland) | |
| civil parish:- | Shap Rural (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | boundary stone | |
| locality type:- | parish boundary mark | |
| locality type:- | estate boundary mark | |
| coordinates:- | NY47760982 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4709 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY40 | |
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 BJT23.jpg North face letter 'L' about 6 inches high. L for Lowther, the landowner in Shap Rural parish, to the north. (taken 20.8.2005)  BJT22.jpg South face letter 'H' about 6 inches high. H for Harrison, the landowner in Longsleddale parish, to the south. (taken 20.8.2005) |
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| evidence:- | map:- OS Six Inch (1956) |
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| source data:- | Map series, various editions with the national grid, scale about
6 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey,
Southampton, Hampshire, scale 1 to 10560 from 1950s to 1960s,
then 1 to 10000 from 1960s to 2000s, superseded by print on
demand from digital data. SINY4709.jpg "B.S." |
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The boundary stone is propped against the new fence, letters:- |
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| on opposite sides. The boundary is between lands owned by Lowther and Harrison, and
incidentally a parish boundary between Longsleddale and Shap Rural. |
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