MONUMENT SOUTH OF GREEN RIG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1335643
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT SOUTH OF GREEN RIG
Statutory Address:: MONUMENT SOUTH OF GREEN RIG

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Date:: 2003-01-02
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1335643
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT SOUTH OF GREEN RIG
Statutory Address 1:: MONUMENT SOUTH OF GREEN RIG

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MONUMENT SOUTH OF GREEN RIG

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Nicholforest
National Grid Reference:: NY 48937 78662

Details

NY 47 NE NICHOLFOREST

8/78 Monument south of Green Rigg

II

Monument. Inscribed THIS MONUMENT ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM FORSTER, BROWN KNOWE, WHO WAS SHOT ON THIS SPOT THE 26TH SEPTEMBER 1891, AGED 38 (or 68) YEARS, followed by religious text; inscribed on plinth G. Hope, Smithfield. Calciferous sandstone stepped plinth, polished Dalbeattie granite shaft, tall tapering calciferous sandstone column. Surrounded by low wall with cast iron speared railings. Gamekeeper who was shot by a poacher. Lies on the boundary between Nicholforest and Bewcastle CP's.

Listing NGR: NY4893778662

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 78160
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.