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boundary stone, Longsleddale/Shap Rural (12)
site name:-   Tarn Crag (roughly) 
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:-   NY49100801
1Km square:-   NY4908
10Km square:-   NY40
SummaryText:-   The stone marks ownership, and the parish boundary incidentally.


photograph
BNO64.jpg  L for Lowther, the landowner in Shap Rural parish, to the north.
(taken 12.4.2007)  
photograph
BNO65.jpg  H for Harrison, the landowner in Longsleddale parish, to the south; having been half buried the letter H is impressed in the peat.
(taken 12.4.2007)  

evidence:-   map:- OS Six Inch (1956) 
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the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, scale 1 to 10560 from 1950s to 1960s, then 1 to 10000 from 1960s to 2000s, superseded by print on demand from digital data.
image
SINY4908.jpg
"B.S."

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