Rivet On Milestone On Lancaster Canal - Borwick, UK - U.K. and Ireland Trigpoints on Waymarking.com

The Lancaster Canal
"The Lancaster Canal is a canal in the north of England, originally planned to run from Westhoughton in Lancashire to Kendal in south Cumbria (then in Westmorland). The section around the crossing of the River Ribble was never completed, and much of the southern end leased to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, of which it is now generally considered part.

Of the canal north of Preston, only the section from Preston to Tewitfield near Carnforth in Lancashire is currently open to navigation for 42 miles (67.6 km).

The milestone
The canal is one of the most rural in the UK and passes through only a few large towns. The milestones on the canal therefore only show distances to the nearest large town, rather than the end points on the canal.

The ones on this section show the distances between Lancaster, and the original northern end at Kendal, even though the navigable northern end is now Tewitfield.

This milestone is in poor condition and the distances are visible, but rather faint. On the north side the distance to Kendal is 16, the distance to Lancaster on the south side is 11.

The rivet is located on top of the milestone. The Ordnance Survey database has a record of this trigpoint, but actually records it as a cut mark rather than a rivet. The following details were obtained from the OS website and typing the following coordinates 54,8,40.72,W,2,43,27.54.

Square	Easting	Northing	Mark type	Description	Height	Order	Datum	Verified year	Levelling year	Metres above ground
SD	5278	7234	CUT MARK	MP W BANK CANAL	22.247	3	'N'	1953	-	0.700

Type of Trigpoint: Rivet Condition: Slightly Damaged Number on Flush Bracket: N/A

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