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| St John's Cross, Sandside | ||
| St John's Cross | ||
| locality:- | Sandside | |
| civil parish:- | Beetham (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | locality | |
| locality type:- | cross (site ?) | |
| locality type:- | anchorage | |
| coordinates:- | SD47398041 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4780 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD48 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 46 2) placename:- St Johns Cross |
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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. |
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| hearsay:- |
At one time coffins were landed here from Witherslack, to be buried at St John's,
Beetham |
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| A house by here was an inn, whose landlord charged anchorage. An old innsign noted:- |
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| "Pay me down me anchorage, Or else I'll tell you plain, You'll never cast your anker down In Bummershire Bay again." |
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| The landlord was once caught with a cargo of contraband goods hidden in the rocks
behind his house. |
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