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milestone, Brough (5)
site name:-   road, Bowes to Brough
locality:-   Augill
civil parish:-   Brough (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY81431472
1Km square:-   NY8114
10Km square:-   NY81
references:-   OS County Series


photograph
CFM99.jpg  Inscribed stone:-
"BOWES / 12 / MILES. / BROUGH / 1 / MILE." (taken 23.9.2016)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 16) 
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. BOWES 12"

evidence:-   possibly old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5NY81NW.jpg
"27"
milestone marked by road 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE TO SOUTH OF AUGILL HOUSE / / A66 (EAST OF BROUGH) / BROUGH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73291 / NY8144014718"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone; C19. Single stone c2 ft high with segmental top and edge chamfers. Carved sans serif inscription painted out in white: BOWES 12 MILES (hand points to right), BROUGH 1 MILE (hand points to left)."

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