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milestone, Embleton
site name:-   road, Keswick to Cockermouth
civil parish:-   Embleton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY16733040
1Km square:-   NY1630
10Km square:-   NY13


photograph
BNR51.jpg  Cast iron on stone:-
"COCKERMOUTH / 3 MILES / KESWICK / 10 MILES" (taken 25.5.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 55 2) 
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. Cockermouth .. 3 Keswick .. 10"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE OPPOSITE BLUE BELL INN / / / EMBLETON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72659 / NY1673930408"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone. Early C19 for the Cockermouth-Keswick Turnpike. Whitewashed slate with shaped top and front cast iron plate inscribed COCKERMOUTH 3 MILES, KESWICK 10 MILES; lettering picked out in black."

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