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| Lady's Pillar, Mallerstang | ||
| Lady's Pillar | ||
| site name:- | Hugh Seat | |
| locality:- | Mallerstang | |
| civil parish:- | Mallerstang (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | pillar | |
| coordinates:- | SD80849908 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD8099 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD89 | |
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 CEH13.jpg (taken 2.11.2015)  CEH14.jpg Date stone:- "AP 1664" for Lady Anne Pembroke. (taken 2.11.2015) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 36) placename:- Lady's Pillar |
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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. "Lady's Pillar" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) placename:- Ladys Pillar |
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| source data:- | Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1
mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas
Jefferys, London, 1770. J5SD89NW.jpg "Ladys Pillar" pillar, on county boundary item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) |
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| source data:- | Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. Page 156:- "..." "... Morvill Hugh-seat ... where Anne countess of Pembroke erected a stone pillar, and on one of the stones is this inscription: A.P. 1664." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) placename:- Ladys Pillar |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles
to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805. CY24SD79.jpg "Ladys Pillar" tower symbol item:- JandMN : 129 Image © see bottom of page |
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 CEH15.jpg (taken 2.11.2015)  BVU73.jpg Kneeler at St Mary, Mallerstang. (taken 13.1.2012) |
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| hearsay:- |
Erected to commemorate Sir Hugh de Morville, Earl of Cumberland and Lord of the Manor
of Mallerstang; and one of the four knights who murdered Thomas a Becket, 1170. |
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| There is said to be an inscription:- |
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| "AP 1664" |
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| The pillar being erected at the behest of Lady Anne Pembroke, 1664. |
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