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milestone, St John's Castlerigg etc (3)
site name:-   road, Penrith to Keswick
civil parish:-   St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY29412445
1Km square:-   NY2924
10Km square:-   NY22


photograph
BPB88.jpg  Cast iron plate on stone, remounted:-
"PENRITH / 16 MILES / KESWICK / 2 MILES" (taken 22.4.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 3) 
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.
"Penrith 16 Keswick 2 MS"

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