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milestone, Holme (4)
site name:-   road, Lancaster to Kendal E
civil parish:-   Holme (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   milestone
coordinates:-   SD53017964
1Km square:-   SD5379
10Km square:-   SD57


photograph
BQA85.jpg " - BURTON 2 MILES / 1826 / KENDAL 9 MILES" (taken 6.2.2009)  
photograph
BQA86.jpg  Maker's mark:-
"T. WIN[DER] / GATEBECK / FOUNDRY" (taken 6.2.2009)  

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
J5SD57NW.jpg
"9"
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
"MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES NORTH OF HOLME PARK / / A 6070 / HOLME / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76675 / SD5301979648"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Milepost. Dated 1826. Cast iron. Half-hexagonal with fluted faces and domed top. Painted black and white. Marked:"
"BURTON / 2 / MILES"
"on North side and"
"KENDAL / 9 / MILES"
"on South."
"One of a series of similar milestones and boundary stones on the Heronsyke Turnpike for which the work was supervised by John McAdam."


photograph
BQA87.jpg  Back of the marker.
(taken 6.2.2009)  


photograph
BLO21.jpg  Before restoration
" - BURTON 2 MILES / 1826 / KENDAL 9 MILES" (taken 13.1.2006)  

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