MILESTONE (SOUTH WEST OF DRAWDYKES CASTLE)

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1323747
Date first listed:: 22-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE (SOUTH WEST OF DRAWDYKES CASTLE)
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE (SOUTH WEST OF DRAWDYKES CASTLE)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1323747
Date first listed:: 22-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE (SOUTH WEST OF DRAWDYKES CASTLE)
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE (SOUTH WEST OF DRAWDYKES CASTLE)

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

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:: MILESTONE (SOUTH WEST OF DRAWDYKES CASTLE)

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

District:: Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stanwix Rural
National Grid Reference:: NY 41614 58402

Details

STANWIX RURAL DRAWDYKES NY 45 NW Milestone 5/63 (South West of Drawdykes Castle)

II

Milestone. Probably 1758, for the Carlisle-Newcastle Military Road. Sandstone, cast-iron plates. Chamfered stone to give 2 faces in direction of traffic, one face with cast plate in 3 lines CARLISLE 2 MILES, other face TO NEWCASTLE 54 MILES, in 4 lines. Whitewashed over and lettering picked-out in black. In 1811 this became the Carlisle-Tamon Turnpike. Each milestone is clearly drawn on Hodgskinson and Donald's map of Cumberland and Westmorland, survey 1770.

Listing NGR: NY4161458402

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 77644
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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