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| Mercer memorial, Buttermere | ||
| Mercer memorial | ||
| site name:- | Fleetwith | |
| civil parish:- | Buttermere (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | memorial | |
| locality type:- | cross | |
| coordinates:- | NY197147 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1914 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY11 | |
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| hearsay:- |
Fanny Mercer, age 18, and other servants of Rev P Bowden Smith, given a day off, climbed
Honister Crag and came down Fleetwith, 8 September 1887. Her alpenstock jammed in
a crack in a rock and pushed her off the rock face. The inscription reads:- |
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| "Erected by Friends of Fanny Mercer. Accidentally killed 1887." |
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