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place:- milestone, Barrow Green
site name:- road, Lancaster to Kendal
locality:- Barrow Green
parish Kendal parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
milestone
coordinates:- SD52648839
10Km square:- SD58

1Km square SD5288

photograph

milestone, Barrow Green -- road, Lancaster to Kendal -- Barrow Green -- Kendal -- Cumbria / -- '[T.] WINDER GATEBECK FOUNDRY' -- 'BURTON 8 MILES / 1826 / KENDAL 3 MILES' -- 1.3.2006

source:- OS County Series (Wmd 38)

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 [ ] BURTON [ ]
date:- 1860=1869
period:- 19th century, late; 1860s

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

courtesy of English Heritage
MILESTONE APPROXIMATELY 250 YARDS NORTH OF PUNCH BOWL PUBLIC HOUSE / / A6 / NATLAND / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76448 / SD5265188386
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.
district:- South Lakeland
listed building
coordinates:- SD52658838
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

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