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Skiddaw View, Western Bank
'Homes fit for heroes' - a row of 12 houses built by Wigton Urban District Council, shortly after the end of the First World War (information from 'Wigton Through Time' by T.Grahamslaw http://www.amberleybooks.com/shop/article_9781848688063/Wigton-Through-Time%3CBR%3E%3CI%3ETrevor-Grahamslaw%3C_I%3E.html?shop_param=cid%3D16%26aid%3D9781848688063%26 ).
Image: © Rose and Trev Clough
Taken: 14 Jun 2011
0.11 miles
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Skiddaw View, West Road, Wigton, from the west
Six pairs of large semis, built by the local council in the 1920s, and accurately named.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 14 Oct 2014
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Houses on West Road, Wigton
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 17 Sep 2016
0.12 miles
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Nos. 4 and 2 Greenacres
There is an Ordnance Survey benchmark
Image on the side of the right hand house at its front corner
Image: © Luke Shaw
Taken: 23 Jul 2019
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Greenacres, Wigton
The western of two entrances into the Western Bank estate.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 14 Oct 2014
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Benchmark on No. 2 Greenacres
Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark levelled at 32.292m above Newlyn Datum in 1962 and verified in 1970
Image: © Luke Shaw
Taken: 23 Jul 2019
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Commemorative pyramid, Barton Laws Playing Field
There are two very shiny plaques on the pyramid :
North side "This Playing Field was purchased in 1920 to perpetuate the memory of the townspeople of Wigton who served in The Great War 1914-1918"
South side "This Playing Field was rededicated by the Wigton Town Council to commemorate the opening of the Wigton Bypass on 7th April 1993.
This Memorial was built by the contractors Alfred McAlpine Construction Ltd and the plaques were provided by UCB Films PLC"
Are we to understand that they have rededicated the playing field to something entirely different?
Image: © Rose and Trev Clough
Taken: 14 Jun 2011
0.16 miles
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Playing fields memorial cairn, Wigton, from the north
The brass plaque reads 'This playing field was purchased in 1920 to perpetuate the memory of the townspeople of Wigton who served in the Great War 1914 - 1918'. The south side contains a similar dedication for the Second World War.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 14 Oct 2014
0.16 miles
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South parapet of Wiza Bridge taking B5302 over Wiza Beck
Ordnance Survey documents indicate that in 1844 a 1GL bolt benchmark was levelled at 86.76 feet above Liverpool Datum on the bridge pier at the far side of the beck
Image: © Luke Shaw
Taken: 23 Jul 2019
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Houses on the north side of West Road, Wigton [B5302]
This road must be a lot quieter since the by-pass opened.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 14 Oct 2014
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