5 BOUNDARY STONES ON BORDER WITH CUMBRIA - Stanhope - List
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Description
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.... -
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