Slate headstones, Foston churchyard
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Slate headstones, Foston churchyard
Image: © Jonathan Thacker Taken: 28 Mar 2016
Slate headstones were popular (but expensive) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in this area. Foston has a very good collection of them. The slate came from around Swithland in Leicestershire.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.976939
Longitude
-0.722455