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Harraby housing
A view looking to the southeast along Cumwhinton Road in the residential area of Harraby.
Image: © Phil Williams
Taken: 17 Feb 2007
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Cumwhinton Road
Looking south east.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 10 Oct 2015
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Houses on Hopes Hill Drive
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 10 Oct 2015
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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
0.11 miles
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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
0.12 miles
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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
0.12 miles
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Milestone (for Carlisle 2) outside house named 'Two Miles' on NE side of London Road
An image of the other face of the milestone is at
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The milestone has Milestone Society National ID: CU_PRCL16
Image: © Roger Templeman
Taken: 21 Oct 2021
0.12 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
0.12 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
0.12 miles
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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
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