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| Rebel Tree, Clifton | ||
| Rebel Tree | ||
| Rebel Oak | ||
| locality:- | Clifton Moor | |
| locality:- | Townend | |
| locality:- | Clifton | |
| civil parish:- | Clifton (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | tree | |
| locality type:- | oak | |
| locality type:- | battle | |
| locality type:- | memorial | |
| coordinates:- | NY53742631 (about or wrong) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5326 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY52 | |
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 BQE85.jpg (taken 6.3.2009)  BQE86.jpg A memorial stone by the tree. (taken 6.3.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 8 1) placename:- Rebels' Tree |
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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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 BQE87.jpg Plaque on the memorial stone, 1936:- "HERE LIE BURIED THE / MEN OF THE ARMY OF / PRINCE CHARLES WHO / FELL AT CLIFTON MOOR / 18 DECEMBER 1745 / EECTED BY [GEORGINA &WILBERT GOODCHILD] 1936" (taken 6.3.2009)  BQE88.jpg A shiny new plaque:- "In Memory / Of Fellow Scots Who Lie Here on Foreign Soil / Never Forgotten / Prosperity to Scotland And No Union / Siol nan Gaidheal" (taken 6.3.2009)  BQE89.jpg A sign for the Buchanans, and the Saltire flag. (taken 6.3.2009) |
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| hearsay:- |
Here were buried some of the rebels after the Battle of Clifton, 1745. |
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| Up the lane beside Town End Farm Buildings, S and E of the George and Dragon. |
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| Richardson, Keith: 2011: Jack's Yak: River Greta Writer (Keswick, Cumbria):: ISBN
978 0 9559640 2 2 |
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| personal | ||
| person:- | soldier; rebel (1745) : |
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| place:- | burial place | |
| date:- | 1745 |
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