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Benchmark on St Cuthbert's Catholic Church
Ordnance Survey flush bracket (serial identifier S8299) benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm13197
Image: © Roger Templeman
Taken: 3 Aug 2019
0.02 miles
2
St Cuthbert's RC Church, Burnfoot, Wigton
Designed by Bonomi and built of red sandstone in 1837. Enlarged in 1857.
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 1 Nov 2006
0.02 miles
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Hope House, Burnfoot, Wigton
Partly behind St Cuthbert's RC Church. This looks to be a pair of large semi-detached houses of the 19C.
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 1 Nov 2006
0.02 miles
4
Convent, Burnfoot, Wigton
Next to St Cuthbert's RC Church.
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 1 Nov 2006
0.02 miles
5
St Cuthbert's Church on NW side of B5303
There is an Ordnance Survey flush bracket benchmark
Image on a buttress on the left hand side of the church at its front corner
Image: © Luke Shaw
Taken: 16 Jul 2019
0.02 miles
6
St Cuthbert's Church beside B5303
There is a milestone
Image against the roadside wall in the middle of the image
Image: © Luke Shaw
Taken: 16 Jul 2019
0.03 miles
7
Lidl supermarket
Opened in 2011. A garage previously on the site was demolished - see
Image . A new mini- roundabout was installed as part of the development.
The photo was taken from a bus.
Image: © Rose and Trev Clough
Taken: 14 Jun 2011
0.03 miles
8
Milestone on NW side of King Street (B5303)
Ordnance Survey documents indicate that in 1844 a benchmark was levelled at 72.133 feet above Liverpool Datum on top of this milestone. See www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm33894 for details
Image: © Luke Shaw
Taken: 16 Jul 2019
0.04 miles
9
Old Milestone by the B5303 in Wigton
Metal plate attached to stone post by the B5303 (was A595), in parish of WIGTON (ALLERDALE District), opposite Accrington Terrace, in front of St Cuthbert's Presbytery, in Presbytery wall, on North side of road. Carlisle red stone and curved plate, erected by the Cockermouth & Carlisle turnpike trust in the 19th century.
Inscription reads:-
CARLISLE
11 MILES
WIGTON
COCKERMOUTH
15½ MILES
Grade II Listed. List Entry Number: 1144588
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1144588
Milestone Society National ID: CU_CLCM11a.
Image: © CF Smith
Taken: 16 Sep 2005
0.04 miles
10
Burnfoot Bridge taking King Street over Speet Gill
Ordnance Survey records indicate that a 1GL bolt benchmark was levevelled at 67.900 feet above Liverpool Datum on a bridge at this location in 1844 during the Kendal to Carlisle Survey. The surveyor's description was 'Mark 342. Bolt in North-west pier of Burnford Bridge ; 4.40 ft. below top of battlement'
Image: © Roger Templeman
Taken: 3 Aug 2019
0.05 miles