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| Old Garden | Old Garden | Mr William Makins, Thornton Mains | On Sheet | An old vegetable garden belonging to the | ||
| Old Garden | Mr Thomas R Nicholson, Thornton | 6.7 | old farmhouse of Thornton which stood near | |||
| Old Garden | Mr Robt Manderson, Thornton Cottage | to where Thornton Cottage now stands. | ||||
| "Stone" | "Stone" | Mr William Makins, Thornton Mains [*] | On Sheet | It is the site of an old Chapel and | ||
| This stone marks the | This stone marks the } | Mr Thomas R Nicholson, Thornton | 6.7 | Burying Ground but all trace of either have | ||
| site of the old | site of the old } | Mr Robt Manderson, Thornton Cottage | long since |
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| Chapel and Cemetery | Chapel and Cemetery } | put up in it by Archdeacon Thorpe | ||||
| (Managing trustee of the Estate) in 1838 | ||||||
| having on it the following inscription | ||||||
| "This Stone marks the site of the old | ||||||
| Chapel and Cemetery". I could not ascertain | ||||||
| the Dedicatory name nor anything further | ||||||
| respecting it. | ||||||
| Peel | Peel | Mr William Makins, Thornton Mains | On Sheet | This is situated a short distance from | ||
| (Site of) | (Site of) | Mr Thomas R Nicholson, thornton | 6.7 | the northwest corner of the "Old Garden". | ||
| Mr Robt Manderson, Thornton Cottage | It was standing, in the memory of some | |||||
| of the inhabitants of "Thornton", and | ||||||
| was two stories high, having the | ||||||
| the walls of great thickness, measuring | ||||||
| better than 4 feet |
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| with sandstone, but there is not a vestige | ||||||
| of it now remaining, the stones &c having been | ||||||
| taken away for building purposes. | ||||||
| It is also said that there was a causeway constructed | ||||||
| from here to a small emminence in "Thornton Bog" called Pill Knowes, or | ||||||
| more properly "Peel Knowe" but cannot now be traced. | ||||||
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Transcribed by TH
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