Old milestone beside New Road
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Old milestone beside New Road
Image: © Roger Templeman Taken: 9 Apr 2018
Milestone which showed Workington 7, Whitehaven 1, and is shown as having an Ordnance Survey benchmark levelled at 193.1 feet above Liverpool Datum on the 1899 1:2500 Map. See www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm30141 for additional information. The stone is in parish of DISTINGTON (COPELAND District), Bransty, 300m S of jct of A595 by pass; opp. No. 7, in wall, on West side of road. Whitehaven plate stone Erected by the Whitehaven turnpike trust in the 19th century. Its distance plates are missing. Milestone Society National ID: CU_WHWO01
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Image Location
Latitude
54.558707
Longitude
-3.578957