The "Oxnam Stell"
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The "Oxnam Stell"
Image: © Walter Baxter Taken: 24 Nov 2007
Situated at the entrance to Oxnam Parish Churchyard, this miniature stell was built in the summer of 2001 by local dyker Brian Purves to be a reminder of the foot and mouth cull of April that year. 4732 cattle and 21,319 sheep in Oxnam Valley had to be slaughtered to contain the disease. The centre boulder comes from Crailinghall, which suffered the greatest loss of stock, and the 26 cope stones topping the wall all come from farms where slaughter took place. The site information board names all the individual farms. (Source: from the site board).
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Image Location
Latitude
55.46338
Longitude
-2.474424