OS bolt & benchmark - Shap, St Michael's Church
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OS bolt & benchmark - Shap, St Michael's Church
Image: © Richard Law Taken: 20 Apr 2016
An OS bolt and cutmark, dating from the First Primary Levelling survey in the early 1840s; and levelled at almost exactly 863 feet above Liverpool Datum. It's now considered to be 263.149m above Newlyn Datum.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.531401
Longitude
-2.675655