Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Henhow | |
| locality:- | Martindale Common | |
| parish |
Martindale parish, once in
Westmorland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s; haunted house | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY434177 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY41 | |
| 1Km square | NY4317 | |
| story |
In 1834 the tenant shepherd of Henhow Cottage (which no
longer exists), met a woman who told him she once lived
there, in the 1790s. She had been got pregnant by a local
clergyman, who met her here and gave her a potion to abort
the unwanted child. The poison was too strong and killed
mother as well as child; for which she was doomed to wander
here for a hundred years.
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| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013 | ||
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