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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | THE PLAGUE STONE , Higher Sutton, near Macclesfield SJ9561469227
This wayside cross, possibly a Christianised standing stone, was apparently the place where goods were left by the healthy for sale to the plague-stricken. The latter took the goods and left the money in a pot of water. Interestingly the 1904 OS map shows an isolation hospital located near by.
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| Posted Comments: richard
(2001-11-05) | like the story would love to learn more. Isolation hospital for t.b.? |
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