Margaret Leyland of Clayton's Gravestone A late-17th-century English gravestone, situated at the Church of St Andrew in Leyland. The inscription reads as follows: HERE•LIETH•INT (here is assumed. That part of the gravestone is damaged.) ERRED•THE•BODY OF•MARGARET•THE WIFE•OF•THVRST AN•LEYLAND•OF CLAYTON•WHO: WAS•BVRIED•THE 5DAY•OF•AVGVST ADGED 27•1686 AS•YUV•ARE•WA LKING•SOE•WAS I•DEATH•DID•ARR EST•AND•HERE•I LIE•AND•MVST•RE MAINE•VNTILL•T HE•JVDGMENT•DA Y•VNTILL•THE•TR VMPET•SOVND•A ND•CALLS•ME•HE NCE•A•WAY Margaret Leyland of Clayton's Gravestone, of 1686, at the Church of St Andrew in Leyland. A Normalised Transcription This transcription is how the information would read in modern day English. Here lieth interred the body of Margaret, the wife of Thurstan Leyland of Clayton, who was buried the 5th day of August, aged 27, 1686. As you are walking, so was I; Death did arrest, and here I lie, And must remain until the Judgment Day, Until the trumpet sound and calls me hence aw...
Ribchester Workhouse and the Preston Civic Crest In 2024, I spent a quite bit of time looking for examples of Preston's Civic Crest , which is a version of the Coat-of-Arms for the City of Preston, that adorned many places around 'Town'. Preston's Civic Crest at the former Ribchester Workhouse Another Lying Down Lamb with a Flag... On my travels in July 2024, I approached Longridge from Ribchester. Always on the lookout for things of interest, I spotted the Preston Civic Crest (Coat of Arms) on the front of a building. I can't say that I had ever noticed before. After my delve into the history related to the one on the sign of the former Corporation Arms public house at Longridge, I just assumed that it was also something related to the water works and Longridge reservoirs. The former Ribchester Workhouse at Frances Green Farm Preston's Civic Crest at the former Ribchester Workhouse Once I got back home, and sat behind the computer to research things ...