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Carlisle, Google Earth car
On Welsh Road, preparing for a day's work re-surveying Carlisle's suburbs.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 15 May 2012
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Carlisle, Barnardo's Community House
Sure Start Centre on Blundell Road: http://www.barnardos.org.uk/carlislesouthcc.htm
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 15 May 2012
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Carlisle Milestone
Beside London Road; 2 miles from Carlisle and 16 miles to Penrith.
Image: © David Rogers
Taken: 8 Oct 2009
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Carlisle city boundary stone, London Road
Red sandstone marker located between Nos 417 and 419 London Road. Inscribed : CC 1912. In that year the municipal borough and civil parish of Carlisle was extended, taking in the townships of Harraby, Upperby, and Botcherby together with parts of Belle Vue, Cummersdale and Stanwix (Kelly's directory of Cumberland and Westmorland, 1914).
Image: © Rose and Trev Clough
Taken: 3 Oct 2016
0.06 miles
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1912 City of Carlisle boundary stone on NE side of London Road
In grass verge of the A6 on the line of the northern boundary of #419 London Road, the stone has the Milestone Society National ID: CU_CL03pb
Image: © Roger Templeman
Taken: 21 Oct 2021
0.06 miles
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Old GPO telephone cable marker (4), close up
For setting, see
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An Edwardian relic, installed by the General Post Office (GPO) to show the location of an underground telephone cable or junction.
For information, see a similar but more exposed specimen below Summer Hill
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Image: © Rose and Trev Clough
Taken: 3 Oct 2016
0.06 miles
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Old GPO telephone cable marker, London Road (4)
A rusty metal post, sticking out of the grassy bank on the left. On London Road (A6) at Harraby, heading out of town.
For more detail see
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There is another one of these, more prominent, on the same stretch of road
Image . Also two more closer to town http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5222637 & http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5222638 .
Image: © Rose and Trev Clough
Taken: 3 Oct 2016
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Milestone - Carlisle 2
There is an OS pivot on the milestone. It marks a point 45.35m above mean sea level.
Image: © Adrian Dust
Taken: 11 Apr 2016
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Old Milestone by the A6, London Road, Carlisle
Metal plates attached to stone post by the A6, in parish of Carlisle (Carlisle District), London Road, by No. 405, in Carleton, 50m North West of junction with Blundell Road, by drive entrance in pavement with back to a wall, on East side of road. Carlisle red stone numeral, erected by the Carlisle & Eamont Bridge Turnpike Trust in the 19th century.
Inscription reads:-
: 16 : : 2 :
Carved benchmark on top.
Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1196926
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1196926
Milestone Society National ID: CU_PRCL16.
Image: © Milestone Society
Taken: 28 May 2017
0.08 miles
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Benchmark on Penrith 16 milestone outside #405 London Road ('Two Miles')
Ordnance Survey pivot benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm74946
The mark was levelled at 45.350m above Newlyn Datum verified 1972, and at 148.702 feet above Liverpool Datum during the 1841/44 Liverpool to Port Carlisle 1GL Survey.
Image: © Roger Templeman
Taken: 21 Oct 2021
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