Marker post, Hest Bank
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Marker post, Hest Bank
Image: © Humphrey Bolton Taken: 19 Dec 2007
This is near to the milestone, and is unusual (or at least I have never seen one like it before). It has the royal cypher, which must be of Edward VII, has space for a measurement in feet and inches, presumably to the line of a cable. As far as I know the only public utility to use the royal cypher is the GPO telephone service, but I thought telephone wires were all overhead in the early 20C.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.087239
Longitude
-2.80102