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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
county:- Cumbria
milestone
coordinates:- NY19064009
10Km square:- NY14

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photograph

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)

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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