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milestone, Boltons (4)
site name:-   road, Cockermouth to Carlisle
locality:-   Cockbridge
civil parish:-   Boltons (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY20074120
1Km square:-   NY2041
10Km square:-   NY24


photograph
CEL66.jpg  Cast iron plate on stone:-
"CARLISLE / 16 MILES / WIGTON / 6 MILES / COCKERMOUTH / 9½MILES" (taken 6.2014)  courtesy of Terry Moore
Image ©  Terry Moore

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 36 11) 
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 Carlisle .. 17 Cockermouth .. 9 1/2 Wigton .. 6"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE EAST OF ALDERSCEUGH / / A595 / BOLTONS / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72330 / NY2007841208"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone. Late C18 or early C19 for the Carlisle-Cockermouth Turnpike. Red sandstone, cast-iron plate. Rounded-top stone with curved face, plate to front with raised letters CARLISLE 16 MILES, WIGTON 6 MILES, COCKERMOUTH 9 1/2 MILES. Whitewashed with lettering picked out in black."

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