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Listed building outline: Jennys Lantern On Hilltop 1.4 Kilometres South West Of East Bolton Farm 1041960

Jennys Lantern On Hilltop 1.4 Kilometres South West Of East Bolton Farm 1041960

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entry-date: 2013-01-29
listed-building: 1041960
name: Jennys Lantern On Hilltop 1.4 Kilometres South West Of East Bolton Farm
notes: HEDGELEY EAST BOLTON NU 11 NW NU 11961531 Jenny's Lantern, 5/233 on hilltop 1.4 kilometre south- west of East Bolton Farm II Ruin of eyecatcher incorporating shepherd's cottage, probably mid-C18. Squared stone. Rectangular plan. South wall shows door and window openings of single-storey cottage which had pent roof against taller flat-coped wall to rear; coping stepped down on left return. Right return fallen. A prominent landscape feature, its form probably based on Crawley Tower (q.v.); associated with local legend of a shepherd's wife displaying a lantern to guide her husband home over the fells after his evenings in an Eglingham hostelry; one evening however he fell into a bog and drowned. ,
reference: 1041960
start-date: 1987-08-25
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