Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Lady's Pillar | |
| site name:- | Hugh Seat | |
| locality:- | Mallerstang | |
| parish |
Mallerstang parish, once in
Westmorland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| boundary stone; county boundary mark | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD80879914 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD89
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| locality:- | Westmorland boundary | |
| 1Km square | SD8099 | |
 Lady's Pillar -- Hugh Seat -- Mallerstang -- Westmorland boundary -- Mallerstang -- Cumbria / -- Kneeler at St Mary, Mallerstang. -- 13.1.2012 | ||
| source:- |
OS County Series (Wmd 36)
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| 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 | ||
| old BS | ||
| placename:- | Lady's Pillar | |
| date:- | 1860=1869 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1860s | |
| old text:- |
Camden 1789 (Gough
Additions)
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| 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. | ||
| person:- | : Pembroke, Anne, Lady | |
| date:- | 1789 | |
| period:- | 18th century, late; 1780s | |
| hearsay |
Erected to commemorate Sir Hugh de Morvill, Earl of
Cumberland and Lord of the Manor of Mallerstang; and one of
the four knights who murdered Thomas a Becket, 1170.
There is said to be an inscription:- AP 1664 The pillar being erected at the behest of Lady Anne Pembroke, 1664. | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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