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| HER Number: | MDV7674 |
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| Name: | BOUNDARY STONE in the Parish of Rackenford, Witheridge |
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Summary
Roughly triangular parish boundary stone with parish names tooled into the two smooth faces.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SS 819 176 |
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| Map Sheet: | SS81NW |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | Rackenford |
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| Civil Parish | Witheridge |
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| District | North Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | CREACOMBE |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses
- Old DCC SMR Ref: SS81NW/7/1
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- BOUNDARY STONE (Unknown date)
Full description
Bidgood, G., 1978, Witheridge Parish Boundary (Un-published). SDV37713.
The Witheridge parish boundary makes use of watercourses and continuous, almost straight, hedgebanks that betray their antiquity by the way they run across country with other hedges butting up against them on either side. The ecclesiastical parish boundaries date from the Norman conquest. The parish is well endowed with boundary stones, though the reason why, and their date, remain unknown. The stones themselves are roughly triangular with two smooth faces with parish names tooled in.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV37713 | Un-published: Bidgood, G.. 1978. Witheridge Parish Boundary. A4 Stapled. |
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Associated Monuments
| MDV7673 | Related to: BOUNDARY STONE in the Parish of Rackenford, Witheridge (Monument) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | Sep 30 2015 5:07PM |
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