Guide Post at SE 0010 6293

GUIDE POST AT SE 0010 6293, B6160

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1316809
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Guide Post at SE 0010 6293
Statutory Address:
GUIDE POST AT SE 0010 6293, B6160
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Date:
2002-09-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1316809
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Guide Post at SE 0010 6293
Statutory Address 1:
GUIDE POST AT SE 0010 6293, B6160

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GUIDE POST AT SE 0010 6293, B6160

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Linton
National Park:
Yorkshire Dales
National Grid Reference:
SE 00108 62930

Details

LINTON B6160 SD 06 SW (south side) 5/46 Guide post at SE 0010 6293 II Guide post. Early-mid C19. Gritstone. Triangular in section, approximately 60 centimetres high. Square-cut incised lettering, left face: "LINTON / SKIPTON " with arrow painted in black. Right face: "KILNSEY / THRESHFIELD" with arrow. The stone is one of several in the area positioned when the roads were being improved to carry the increased loads of lead from Grassington Moor, and to help in the movement of cattle to the expanding Skipton cattle market. The turnpike road along the south- west bank of the river Wharfe was established in the late C18 and linked Addingham with Askrigg turnpike. A. Raistrick, Old Yorkshire Dales, 1967, p171.

Listing NGR: SE0010862930

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
324800
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Raistrick, A, Old Yorkshire Dales, (1967), 171

Legal

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

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