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place:- milestone, Cummersdale
site name:- road, Cockermouth to Carlisle
locality:- Newby Cross
parish Cummersdale parish, once in Cumberland
county:- Cumbria
milestone
coordinates:- NY36605302
10Km square:- NY35

1Km square NY3653

source:- OS County Series (Cmd 23)

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. WIGTON 8 CARLISLE 3 COCKERMOUTH 23 1/2
date:- 1867=1868
period:- 19th century, late; 1860s

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

courtesy of English Heritage
MILESTONE (EAST OF NEWBY CROSS FARM) / / A595 / CUMMERSDALE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77586 / NY3664753049
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 3 MILES, WIGTON 8 MILES, COCKERMOUTH 23 1/2 MILES. Whitewashed with lettering picked-out in black.

placename:- Milestone
district:- Carlisle
listed building
coordinates:- NY36645304
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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