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milestone, Natland
site name:-   road, Lancaster to Kendal E
locality:-   Barrow Green (near) 
civil parish:-   Natland (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   SD52658839
1Km square:-   SD5288
10Km square:-   SD58


photograph
BLQ40.jpg "[T.] WINDER GATEBECK FOUNDRY" "BURTON 8 MILES / 1826 / KENDAL 3 MILES" (taken 1.3.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 16) 
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 KENDAL .. 3 BURTON .. 8"

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5SD58NW.jpg
"3"
milestone marked by road 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILESTONE APPROXIMATELY 250 YARDS NORTH OF PUNCH BOWL PUBLIC HOUSE / / A6 / NATLAND / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76448 / SD5265188386"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milestone. Dated 1826. Cast-iron. Half-hexagonal with fluted faced and domed top, painted black and white. Marked:"
"BURTON / 8 / MILES"
"on North Side and"
"KENDAL / 3 / MILES"
"on South Side"
"One of a series of similar Milestones and Boundary Stones on the old Turnpike Road."

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