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Dist:0.2km<br/>Extracts from the information board: As part of the Broughton East Millennium Celebrations and with the aid of a grant from the Local Heritage Initiative the Pound on White Moss was repaired and a Millennium Seat constructed. The essential repairs to the pound and the construction of the seat were carried out using local stone and traditional lime mix mortar with the seat being designed to complement the shape of the pound. Today White Moss Common is used as a communal area and for commemorative occasions. An oak tree was planted in 1977 to commemorate HM Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee and a beech tree in 2002 to commemorate her Golden Jubilee. Minimal cultivation of the common takes place in order to encourage natural diversity of flora and fauna.
©Ian Taylor
Dist:0.3km<br/>This is just part of a large flock of ducks and domestic geese in this field beside the road.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>A distant view of the church near to Field Broughton.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Many places called Broughton in this square
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Many churches have a lych gate built over the main entrance to the enclosed area round the church. The name, also spelt lich or lytch, is from the Anglo Saxon 'lich' meaning corpse. The gate marks the division between consecrated and unconsecrated ground, where the bearers sheltered with the coffin, waiting for the clergyman to lead the procession before the burial. The original lych gates had seats, a lych cross and a lych stone - a slab on which the coffin rested.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>A common seed-eating finch, the chaffinch is easily identified by its white shoulder patches and its white tail feathers visible in flight. Legend has it that if a chaffinch perches on a windowsill, beware of treachery.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>It was a papal edict in the 9th century that was responsible for the proliferation of weathercocks on churches. This edict required every Church in Christendom to be mounted by a cockerel. This symbol was to recall Peter's betrayal of Christ (LUKE 22:34) "I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me". Although only the symbol of the cockerel was required by the edict, the motif, it seems, was quickly wedded with the weathervane. By the 13th century the word for weathercock (gallum) and weathervane (ventrologium) had become interchangeable. Interestingly, early weathercocks did not include cardinal letters, as Christian churches always lay east to west.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.3km<br/>The church was built between 1892-4 of dressed limestone with sandstone dressings.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>A zoom shot from the footpath near Sturdy's to the west.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Meetings rooms and village hall in the centre of the village.
©Trish Steel

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