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place:- milestone, Skelsmergh (4)
site name:- road, Kendal to Shap
parish Skelsmergh parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
milestone
coordinates:- SD52409805
10Km square:- SD59
References OS 2000s Explorer

1Km square SD5298

source:- OS County Series (Wmd 33)

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. SHAP 12 KENDAL 4
date:- 1860=1869
period:- 19th century, late; 1860s

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

courtesy of English Heritage
MILEPOST AT SD 524 980 / / A6 / SKELSMERGH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75746 / SD5240198058
courtesy of English Heritage
Milepost. Dated 1825. Cast iron. Half-hexagonal with fluted faces and domed cap. Panel to left side reads: "SHAP/12/MILES"; panel to right side reads: "KENDAL/4/MILES"; date to centre. One of a series of similar mileposts on Heron Syke to Eamont Bridge turnpike road, 1756.
district:- South Lakeland
listed building
coordinates:- SD52409805
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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