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| Joseph Thompson Headstone, Workington | ||
| Joseph Thompson Headstone | ||
| Street:- | Headstone Lane | |
| locality:- | High Harrington | |
| locality:- | Harrington | |
| civil parish:- | Workington (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | gravestone | |
| coordinates:- | NY00972590 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0025 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY02 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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 CFK47.jpg (taken 2.9.2016)  CFK48.jpg Inscribed:- "Joseph Thompson may here [ ] / [ f]ound not ly in Consecrated [gr] / [ ] died May [ ] 31 174[ ] / Aged 63 [whe]n he was [alive]" (taken 2.9.2016) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 53 15) |
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| source data:- | Maps, 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. "Headstone" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Joseph Thompson Headstone |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "JOSEPH THOMPSON HEADSTONE / / HEADSTONE LANE / WORKINGTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72270 / NY0097225902" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Roadside headstone. Calciferous sandstone slab with rounded top inscribed JOSEPH THOMPSON MAY HERE BE FOUND, WHO WOULD NOT LY IN CONSECRATED GROUND, DIED MAY YE 31 1745, AGED 63 WHEN HE WAS ALIVE. After an argument with the Vicar of Harrington Church, Thompson vowed never to set foot in the church again and on his death-bed requested to be buried at midnight in the middle of Scaw Moor. When the land was enclosed and the headstone proved an obstacle, it was moved to its present roadside position. See William Whellan, History of Cumberland &Westmorland, 1860, 483." |
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