Gents Mag 1831 part 2 p.399

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1831 part 2 p.399
Countess PIllar   Penrith
	Countess Pillar, Penrith Oct. 22. Mr. URBAN, PASSING a day this autumn at the pleasant town of Penrith, I visited some of the objects of interest in its vicinity, and amongst them was the Pillar erected by the Countess of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery, to commemorate the last parting with her mother, called by the people in the neighbourhood, the Countess's Pillar. It stands on a little green eminence on the right of the high road from Penrith to Appleby, which is also the road to Appleby from Brougham Castle, whence no doubt the two ladies set out, the mother - who appears to have been left at Brougham, as she died there seven weeks after the parting, - accompanying the daughter so far on her journey. The distance from Brougham Castle is about half a mile. The home view from the spot on which it stands, is not in any respects striking: but in the distance, looking east-
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