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milestone, Preston Richard
site name:-   road, Milnthorpe to Kirkby Lonsdale
civil parish:-   Preston Richard (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   SD52438342
1Km square:-   SD5283
10Km square:-   SD58


photograph
CGX66.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"K=Lon / =dale / 7 / Miln= / thorp / 2½ / Preston-richd" (taken 11.2017)  courtesy of David Gosling

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 42 16) 
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. Milnthorpe .. 2 1/2 Kirkby Lonsdale .. 7"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE APPROXIMATELY 200 YARDS SOUTH WEST OF LANE FARM / / B6385 / PRESTON RICHARD / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76524 / SD5254483406"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone. Probably early C19. Dressed limestone upright stone with round head and wide stop chamfers to front corners. Painted black and white and inscribed:"
"K = Lon / = dale / 3 on West and"
"Miln = / thorpe 2 1/2"
"on East"
"The 3 on the West side has been painted over with a 7 (the correct distance). Bench-mark on the East side. Worn inscription on base probably reads "To London"."


photograph
BOJ14.jpg  Inscribed stone (before restoration) :-
"K=Lon[ ] / =dale / 7 / Miln= / thorp / 2½" (taken 24.11.2007)  

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