Old milestone
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Old milestone
Image: © Chris Minto Taken: 9 Apr 2019
The 3 miles from Sedbergh West Riding CC milestone dating from 1893/93 needs digging out and repainting. The family firm of Gill & Frank Stead of Mirfield won the contract to erect 615 stones in 12 months. They succeeded and didn't incur any penalty. Grade II listed 484540.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.346722
Longitude
-2.476389