5 Boundary Stones On Border With Cumbria

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

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