{"id":1434,"date":"2012-01-27T14:59:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T22:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2012-01-27T14:59:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T22:59:38","slug":"richmond-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=1434","title":{"rendered":"Richmond &#8211; England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/DOCUME%7E1\/ADMINI%7E1\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-8.png\" border=\"0\" \/>Carlene writes:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hi Diane and John,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; I wanted to let you know that on May 19, 2011 I placed a SamStone in the window of the Richmond Castle which overlooks the River Swale in Richmond, England.&nbsp; &nbsp;My friend Wendy Savoie asked me for a SamStone and I had gotten a few from Diane last spring so I gave her one to take to Tanzania, Africa.&nbsp; You know the rest of the story.&nbsp; She selected a great spot for it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another friend on the England hike left one on Fat Betty.&nbsp; It seems like it is a common thing for hikers passing by to leave a token gift on the stone. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Crosses of the North York Moor<\/p>\n<p>Fat Betty<\/p>\n<p>( Grid Ref: 682 02ere referred to as &#39; White Ladies&#39;<\/p>\n<p>Another tale is that a local farmer&#39;s wife, Fat Betty, fell from their horse and cart . . . Fat Betty<\/p>\n<p>( Fat Betty ( sometimes referred to as White Cross ) stands just north of, and is easily accessible from the road that leads <br \/>from Blakey Rigg to Rosedale Abbey, at the junction of the Danby, Westerdale and Rosedale parishes<\/p>\n<p>The head of the cross is an ancient wheelhead painted white, set into a large stone base, also half of which is painted. <br \/>It could possibly be Norman and is only one of two known wheelheads on the North York Moors<\/p>\n<p>It perhaps takes its name from a Cistercian nun, Sister Elizabeth from the Priory at Rosedale<br \/>These nuns wore gowns of undyed wool and were referred to as &#39; White Ladies&#39;<\/p>\n<p>Another tale is that a local farmer&#39;s wife, Fat Betty, fell from their horse and cart on a dark, foggy night.<br \/>When he arrived home and noticed she was missing from the back of the cart he retraced his route across the moor <br \/>and all he could find was the large, squat stone<\/p>\n<p>( Fat Betty ( sometimes referred to as White Cross ) stands just north of, and is easily accessible from the road that leads <br \/>from Blakey Rigg to Rosedale Abbey, at the junction of the Danby, Westerdale and Rosedale parishes<\/p>\n<p>The head of the cross is an ancient wheelhead painted white, set into a large stone base, also half of which is painted. <br \/>It could possibly be Norman and is only one of two known wheelheads on the North York Moors<\/p>\n<p>It perhaps takes its name from a Cistercian nun, Sister Elizabeth from the Priory at Rosedale<br \/>These nuns wore gowns of undyed wool and were referred to as &#39; White Ladies&#39;<\/p>\n<p>Another tale is that a local farmer&#39;s wife, Fat Betty, fell from their horse and cart on a dark, foggy night.<br \/>When he arrived home and noticed she was missing from the back of the cart he retraced his route across the moor <br \/>and all he could find was the large, squat stone<\/p>\n<p>Three pictures attached:&nbsp; one taken from the castle, Sally Hoy getting ready to place SamStone on Fat Betty with other things left by walkers coming by.<\/p>\n<p>Three pictures attached:&nbsp; one taken from the castle, Sally Hoy getting ready to place SamStone on Fat Betty with other things left by walkers coming by.<\/p>\n<p>Carlene Squires<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clipboard02.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Clipboard02.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clipboard01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Clipboard01.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/P5240698.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P5240698.JPG\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/P5240697.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P5240697.JPG\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/P5190567.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P5190567.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlene writes: &nbsp; Hi Diane and John, &nbsp; I wanted to let you know that on May 19, 2011 I placed a SamStone in the window of the Richmond Castle which overlooks the River Swale in Richmond, England.&nbsp; &nbsp;My friend Wendy Savoie asked me for a SamStone and I had gotten a few from Diane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-placed-samstone"],"geo":{"latitude":54.4012756,"longitude":-1.736904,"description":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}