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milestone, Whitwell and Selside
site name:-   road, Kendal to Shap
civil parish:-   Whitwell and Selside (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   NY54040057
1Km square:-   NY5400
10Km square:-   NY50


photograph
BJT42.jpg  Cast iron:-
"SHAP 10 MILES / 1825 / KENDAL 6 MILES" (taken 22.8.2005)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 34 1) 
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 Shap .. 10 Kendal .. 6"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILEPOST OPPOSITE MEMORIAL HALL / / A6 / WHITWELL AND SELSIDE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75765 / NY5403500564"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milepost. Dated 1825. Cast iron. Half-hexagonal with concave faces and domed cap. Lettering on panels to sides reading: "SHAP/l0/MILES"; to right: "KENDAL/6/MILES"; date to centre. One of a series of mileposts on Heron Syke to Eamont Bridge turnpike road, 1753."

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