Vinegar bowl at Wentworth
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Vinegar bowl at Wentworth
Image: © Dave Pickersgill Taken: 14 Mar 2013
Apparently at the time of the great plague in the mid 17th.century, this stone bowl was filled with vinegar. Outsiders to Wentworth left money in the hope that the coins would be sterilized and would not pass on germs.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.484154
Longitude
-1.402453