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milestone, Brampton (3)
site name:-   road, Carlisle to Brampton N
civil parish:-   Brampton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY52136080
1Km square:-   NY5260
10Km square:-   NY56

photograph
BSE07.jpg  Cast iron plates on stone:-
"TO NEW / CASTLE / 47 / MILES" "TO CAR / LISLE / 9 / MILES" (taken 19.2.2010)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 17 8) 
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 .. 9. Newcastle .. 47."
evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
image
D4NY56SW.jpg
"9"
milestone; from Carlisle towards Newcastle 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE AT NGR NY 52130 60805 / / CARLISLE ROAD / BRAMPTON / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77803 / NY5213160806"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone. Probably 1758, for the Carlisle-Newcastle Military Road. Sandstone, cast-iron plates. Chamfered stone to give 2 faces in direction of traffic, one face with cast plate TO CARLISLE 9 MILES, other face TO NEWCASTLE 47 MILES, both in 4 lines. Whitewashed over and lettering picked-out in black. Bench mark on top of stone. This became the Carlisle-Temon Turnpike in 1811. Each milestone is clearly drawn on Hodgskinson &Donald's map of Cumberland and Westmorland, surveyed 1770."

photograph
CEL79.jpg  Cast iron plates on stone:-
"TO NEW / CASTLE / 47 / MILES" "TO CAR / LISLE / 9 / MILES" (taken 2015)  courtesy of Terry Moore
Image ©  Terry Moore
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