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milestone, St John's Castlerigg etc (5)
site name:-   road, Ambleside to Keswick
locality:-   Thirlspot
civil parish:-   St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY31601730 (roughly) 
1Km square:-   NY3117
10Km square:-   NY31

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 70) 
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. KESWICK 6 AMBLESIDE 10"

evidence:-   old print with text:- Farington 1789 (plate 18) 
source data:-   Print, engraving, View on the Road Leading from Ambleside to Keswick, painted by Joseph Farington, engraved by W Byrne and J Landseer, published by W Byrne, 79 Titchfield Street, London, 1789.
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Plate 18 from Views of the Lakes, &c, in Cumberland and Westmorland, published 1789; with descriptive text:-  "North View on the ROAD leading from KESWICK to AMBLESIDE. Taken from the Six mile stone."
"... The Road passes a considerable Way on the Margin of that Lake [Thirlemere], when it becomes again steep and winding; but the Tediousness of Alpine travelling is compensated by the Scene which opens from the Six Mile Stone, on this Side Keswick. ..."
item:-  Dove Cottage : Lowther.49
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