5 Boundary Stones on Border With Cumbria
5 BOUNDARY STONES ON BORDER WITH CUMBRIA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322754
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 5 Boundary Stones on Border With Cumbria
- Statutory Address:
- 5 BOUNDARY STONES ON BORDER WITH CUMBRIA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322754
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 5 Boundary Stones on Border With Cumbria
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5 BOUNDARY STONES ON BORDER WITH CUMBRIA
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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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 5 BOUNDARY STONES ON BORDER WITH CUMBRIA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanhope
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 79124 36895
Details
FOREST AND FRITH YAD MOSS NY73NE, NY79123690, NY78743641 1/48 5 boundary stones on border with Cumbria. II
5 boundary stones. Circa 1850. Sandstone ashlar. Square-section blocks, c. 1.0 metre long, each with pecked lower panels below plain panels with inscriptions; low domed pyramidal tops. West face of each inscribed GH for Greenwich Hospital, and east face inscribed DC for Duke of Cleveland: most northerly inscribed EC, probably for Ecclesiastical Commissioners, on north; these inscriptions in large Roman capitals. Most northerly also bears date 1880 in smaller plain capitals on south face, probably referring to confirmation of boundary. They mark land ownership on a lead-rich hillside, and lie on the boundary between Cumbria and County Durham. Henry Vane of Raby Castle became Duke of Cleveland in 1832; in 1857 the boundary was described as 'recently surveyed'. 2 most northern stones lying on ground at time of survey.
Sources: W. Fordyce History and Antiquities of County Palatine of Durham 1857 v. II, p. 64; A. Raistrick Two Centuries of Industrial Welfare 1974
Listing NGR: NY7912436895
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111849
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Raistick, A, Two Centuries of Industrial Welfare, (1974)
Fordyce, W, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of Durham, (1857), 64
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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