Benchmark, 5 Sandgate, Penrith
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Benchmark, 5 Sandgate, Penrith
Image: © Adrian Taylor Taken: 9 Dec 2022
Detail of the old Ordnance Survey cut benchmark on the plinth of the door pillar of 5 Sandgate, Penrith, formerly the Freemason’s Arms public house. The benchmark, not listed on the Ordnance Survey database, is recorded as marking a height of 421.3 feet above Ordnance Datum Liverpool (0.650ft below mean sea level) on the 1861 Ordnance Survey first edition town map of Penrith (location photograph Image).
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Image Location
Latitude
54.66553
Longitude
-2.75078