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milestone, Above Derwent
site name:-   road, Keswick to Cockermouth
locality:-   Whinlatter Pass
civil parish:-   Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY21702459
1Km square:-   Cmd 63 4
10Km square:-   NY22


photograph
BLM53.jpg  Stone inscribed:-
"8 / 4" and a bench mark; 8 miles to Cockermouth, 4 to Keswick.
(taken 25.12.2005)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series
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.
"Keswick .. 4 Cockermouth .. 8 M.S"
"B.M.879.7"

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