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place:- milestone, Above Derwent (6)
site name:- road, Keswick to Cockermouth
parish Above Derwent parish, once in Cumberland
county:- Cumbria
milestone
coordinates:- NY24012366
10Km square:- NY22
References OS County Series (Cmd 64)

1Km square NY2423

Out of its context, beside the road, the plate means little, just a trophy of an ability to steal.
photograph

milestone, Above Derwent (6) -- road, Keswick to Cockermouth -- Above Derwent -- Cumbria / -- The cast iron plate stolen. -- 19.3.2010

source:- OS County Series (Cmd 64)

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.
COCKERMOUTH 11 KESWICK 2 M.S.
date:- 1867=1868
period:- 19th century, late; 1860s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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