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milestone, Nether Denton
site name:-   road, Brampton to Haltwhistle
civil parish:-   Nether Denton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY58126246
1Km square:-   NY5862
10Km square:-   NY56

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 18 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.
"M.S. Newcastle .. 43 Carlisle .. 13"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE AT NGR NY58130 62460 / / A69 / NETHER DENTON / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 78062 / NY5812362462"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Miles tone. 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 13 MILES, other face TO NEWCASTLE 43 MILES, both in 4 lines. Whitewashed over and lettering picked out in black. This became the Carlisle-Temon Turnpike in 1811. Each milestone is clearly drawn on Hodgskinson &Donald's map of Cumberland and Westmorland, surveyed 1770."

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