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coffin rest, Grasmere
locality:-   Grasmere
locality:-   corpse road, Ambleside to Grasmere
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   coffin rest
coordinates:-   NY34330683
1Km square:-   NY3406
10Km square:-   NY30

MN photo:-  
The coffin stone, or resting stone, is one of several along a corpse road from Ambleside to St Oswald's Church, Grasmere, along which a coffin had to be carried before there was a church in Ambleside.

photograph
BMR17.jpg (taken 17.9.2006)  

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