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| Gallows Stone, Millom | ||
| Gallows Stone | ||
| Hangstone | ||
| locality:- | Gallow Bank | |
| locality:- | Marsh Close | |
| locality:- | Millom | |
| civil parish:- | Millom (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | stone | |
| locality type:- | gallows (site) | |
| coordinates:- | SD17808110 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD1781 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD18 | |
| references:- | OS County Series |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 88) placename:- Gallows Stone item:- gallows; jura regalia |
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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. "Stone / Inscribed 'On this spot stood a Gallows the ancient Lords of Millom having exercised Jura Regalia within their Seigniory'" |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Curwen 1913 placename:- Hangstone |
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| source data:- | Print, halftone photograph, Millom Castle, the Hangstone, Millom, Cumberland, by W
Holmes, Ulverston, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological
Society by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, 1913. click to enlargeCW0141.jpg Tipped in opposite p.212 of The Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, by John F Curwen. printed at bottom:- "MILLOM CASTLE. / The Hangstone on the Marsh Close ..." printed at lower left:- "W. Holmes Ulverston" item:- Armitt Library : A782.41 Image © see bottom of page |
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| hearsay:- |
Travellers crossing Duddon Sands came ashore, east, at Gallow Bank, Millom. Here once
stood a gallows. |
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