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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

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:-
"Erected by Friends of Fanny Mercer. Accidentally killed 1887."

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