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milestone, Burton-in-Kendal (3)
site name:-   road, Lancaster to Kendal E
civil parish:-   Burton-in-Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   SD52997804
1Km square:-   SD5278
10Km square:-   SD57
references:-   OS 2000s Explorer


photograph
BZB71.jpg (taken 16.8.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 47) 
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.
"MS.S BURTON 1 KENDAL 10"

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5SD57NW.jpg
"10"
milestone marked by road 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 400 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST OF CLAWTHORPE HALL / / A6070 / BURTON IN KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / DL / 76639 / SD5298378058"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milepost. Dated 1826. Cast-iron. Half-hexagonal with fluted faces and domed top. Painted black and white. Marked:"
"BURTON / 1 / MILE"
"on the North side and"
"KENDAL / 10/ MILES"
"on the South side."
"One of a series of similar milestones and boundary stones on the Heronsyke Turnpike, for which the work was supervised by John McAdam."

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