Carved inscriptions near Fairy Steps
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Carved inscriptions near Fairy Steps
Image: © Karl and Ali Taken: 27 May 2013
South of the well-known cleft of Fairy Steps the limestone scar has been chiselled. The largest, most obvious inscription reads: 'W Hutton Beetham 1800'. Below it, with decreasing legibility, may be another Hutton from 1900 and possibly a third Hutton from 1925. Assuming they are not the same person it looks like a case of keeping it in the family. Googling turns up several 'W Huttons' of nearby Beetham, one of whom was the vicar http://www.northofthesands.org.uk/westmoreland/surname/114/hutton
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Image Location
Latitude
54.203181
Longitude
-2.787318