BOUNDARY STONE ON SITE OF THREE SHIRE STONES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1311547
Date first listed:: 05-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:: BOUNDARY STONE ON SITE OF THREE SHIRE STONES
Statutory Address:: BOUNDARY STONE ON SITE OF THREE SHIRE STONES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1311547
Date first listed:: 05-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:: BOUNDARY STONE ON SITE OF THREE SHIRE STONES
Statutory Address 1:: BOUNDARY STONE ON SITE OF THREE SHIRE STONES

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BOUNDARY STONE ON SITE OF THREE SHIRE STONES

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Coniston
District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite
District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lakes
National Park:: LAKE DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: NY 27722 02746

Details

DUNNERDALE AND SEATHWAITE NY 20 SE 2/70 Boundary stone on site of Three Shire Stones II

Boundary stone. Dated 1816, when it was carved, but not put into position until c1860. Erected as a memorial to William Field (1770-1860) of Cartmel who served as Bridge-master and High Constable and commissioned the work originally. Single rough-dressed pillar, rectangular in plan and c. 6 ft high; W.F. 1816 appears on the north face and LANCASHIRE on the south, all in raised Roman capitals. Intended by Field to serve as a more conspicuous marker to show the location of the Three Shire Stones which marked the meeting of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire north of the sands. These stones are marked on Saxton's 1610 map of Westmorland but have since disappeared; they were each c. 1 ft high and were arranged in a triangle c. 1 ft apart, each occupying a different county.

Listing NGR: NY2772202746

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.