Fenwick Graveyard Sentry Box
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Fenwick Graveyard Sentry Box
Image: © Mary and Angus Hogg Taken: 23 Jun 2015
Fenwick graveyard has a stone sentry box at both gates, dating back to 1828. They were used to protect recently-buried corpses from body-snatchers who would sell them to doctors and students trying to study anatomy. Ironically, a wall plaque pays tribute to a son of Fenwick who became a respected demonstrator of anatomy in the 1890s.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.660582
Longitude
-4.442419