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market cross, Hesket Newmarket
locality:-   Hesket Newmarket
civil parish:-   Caldbeck (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   market cross
coordinates:-   NY34053862
1Km square:-   NY3438
10Km square:-   NY33
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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BVD30.jpg (taken 5.8.2011)  
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BNX34.jpg (taken 3.8.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 38 13) 
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.
"Cross"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MARKET CROSS / / / CALDBECK / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72401 / NY3405538625"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Market cross and cover. Early C19 rebuild of an earlier structure. Red sandstone piers under hipped graduated greenslate roof. 4 rusticated cylindrical piers with square capitals supporting pyramidal roof with cannonball finial. Interior of base is cobbled and had 2 red sandstone stumps, probably for stocks and a bull ring."

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