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market cross, Kendal
Cauld Stone
Ca' Steean
Street:-   Highgate
locality:-   Kendal
civil parish:-   Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   market cross
coordinates:-   SD51499263
1Km square:-   SD5192
10Km square:-   SD59

MN photo:-  
The Cauld Stone, outside the town hall, was the base of the market cross, where public announcements used to be made. The cross was removed 1759; the stone kept, and eventually moved here.

photograph
BRZ11.jpg (taken 19.1.2010)  
photograph
BRZ12.jpg  Plaque:-
"FROM THE STONE BELOW / (LOCALLY KNOWN AS THE 'CA' STEEAN') / PROCALMATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE / FOR / THREE CENTURIES AT LEAST. / IT WAS / ORIGINALLY PART OF AN OLD MARKET CROSS / WHICH STOOD IN THE MIDDLE / OF STRICKLANDGATE. / MAY 1936." (taken 19.1.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 8) 
placename:-  Call Stone, The
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.
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shown opposite the old town hall 

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