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Aikbank Junction, Waverton
Aikbank Junction
site name:-   Maryport and Carlisle Railway
locality:-   Aikbank
civil parish:-   Waverton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway junction
coordinates:-   NY21834649 (about) 
1Km square:-   NY2146
10Km square:-   NY24

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 28 12) 
item:-  railway milepost
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.
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"M.P. Maryport 15"

evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
image
PST2NY24.jpg
"Leeg[ ]"
labelled at junction on railway; Leegate Station is further SW 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
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