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High Wray Farm, Claife
High Wray Farm
locality:-   High Wray
civil parish:-   Claife (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD37199995
1Km square:-   SD3799
10Km square:-   SD39
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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BZI85.jpg (taken 20.9.2013)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  High Wray Farm
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"HIGH WRAY FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING / / / CLAIFE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76749 / SD3718199935"

hearsay:-  
It is said that Thomas Lancaster of High Wray Farm murdered his wife and six members of her family, poisoning them with white arsenic, 1672. He also poisoned other people in the neighbourhood to make it all look like a contagious disease. Thomas Lancaster was hung at High Wray, and his body exposed on a gibbet by the road near Priest Pot (the Gibbet Tree?).

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