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milestone, Staveley-in-Cartmel (3)
site name:-   road, Kendal to Ulverston
site name:-   road, Lancaster to Ulverston
locality:-   Ayside
civil parish:-   Staveley-in-Cartmel (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   SD39348394
1Km square:-   SD3983
10Km square:-   SD38


photograph
BPC49.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"TO ULVERSTON 11 MLS BARROW 19¼ ,, / STAVELEY / TO GRANGE 4¾MLS KENDAL 15 ,, LANCASTER 26 ," The milestone has been rescued during recent road building; its position and altitude will have changed.
(taken 26.4.2008)  
Is this the right milestone for here?

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 12) 
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. ULVERSTON 10 MILNTHORPE 12"

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