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