Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| place:- | milestone, High Woodnock | |
| site name:- | road, Cockermouth to Carlisle | |
| locality:- | High Woodnock | |
| parish |
Blennerhasset and Torpenhow
parish, once in Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| milestone | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY19064009 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY14
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| 1Km square | NY1940 | |
![]() milestone, High Woodnock -- road, Cockermouth to Carlisle -- High Woodnock -- Blennerhasset and Torpenhow -- Cumbria / -- Cast iron plate on a stone:- -- 'CARLISLE 18 MILES / WIGTON 7 MILES / COCKERMOUTH 8 1/2 MILES' -- 29.9.2006 | ||
| source:- |
OS County Series (Cmd 36)
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| 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. CARLISLE 19 WIGTON 7 COCKERMOUTH 8 1/2 | ||
| date:- | 1867=1868 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1860s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| MILESTONE SOUTH WEST OF KIRKLAND GREEN / / A595 / BLENNERHASSET AND TORPENHOW / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72313 / NY1906540099 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Milestone. Late C18 or early c19 for the Carlisle-Cockermouth Turnpike. Red sandstone, cast-iron plate. Rounded-top stone with curved face, plate to front with raised letters CARLISLE 17 MILES, WIGTON 7 MILES, COCKERMOUTH 8 1/2 MILES. Whitewashed with lettering picked out in black. | ||
| district:- | Allerdale | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY19064009 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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