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plague stone, Newby
site name:-   Cross House
locality:-   Newby
civil parish:-   Newby (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   plague stone
coordinates:-   NY59262131
1Km square:-   NY5921
10Km square:-   NY52


photograph
CGE32.jpg (taken 15.6.2017)  
Set into the garden wall of Cross House. Payment for goods was placed here (when the stone was not tipped up sideways), in vinegar, by plague victims in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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