Old bench mark on an old gatepost
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Old bench mark on an old gatepost
Image: © John S Turner Taken: 18 Jun 2016
This Ordnance Survey bench mark is on the remains of an old gatepost on the corner of Burniston Road and North Cliff Avenue. A mark is recorded at this location on the 1853-4 OS map levelled at 108.6ft and facing south. In 1893 it was levelled at 108.4ft and facing south, then in 1912 it was still levelled at 108.4ft but facing west. In 1914-19 it was again levelled at 108.4ft and still facing west, then in 1928 levelled at 108.3ft but facing south again. It then disappears from the 1938 and 1958 maps and re-appears in 1965 still levelled at 108.3ft and still facing south as it is today. Is it the original mark, was the stone moved, or is the way it was recorded all that changed? See also Image
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Image Location
Latitude
54.29775
Longitude
-0.418071