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| Henhow, Martindale | ||
| Henhow | ||
| locality:- | Martindale Common | |
| civil parish:- | Martindale (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | haunted house | |
| coordinates:- | NY43421771 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4317 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY41 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 12 8) placename:- Henhow |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| story:- |
In 1834 the tenant shepherd of Henhow Cottage (which no longer exists), met a woman
who told him she once lived there, in the 1790s. She had been got pregnant by a local
clergyman, who met her here and gave her a potion to abort the unwanted child. The
poison was too strong and killed mother as well as child; for which she was doomed
to wander here for a hundred years. |
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