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596
Date Entered
30/08/2012
Updated on
30/08/2012
Recorded by
Will Swales
Category
Vernacular Record
Record Type
General HER
Site Access
Public Access Land
Record Date
30/08/2012
Location
Sharrow Hill
Civil Parish
Grinton
Brit. National Grid
SE 054 965
Altitude
370m
Record Name
Boundary stone on Sharrow Hill
Record Description
GRI-8 is boundary stone number eight of the first 21 around Grinton Parish starting from Stolerston Stile and reaching as far as Gibbon Hill. It is on the boundary line between the parishes of Grinton and Ellerton Abbey, 150m south-west of the Grinton-Leyburn road, on the east side of Sharrow Hill. It is inscribed on the east face with a row of four horizontal dots, ED, and I+S. At the foot of the stone is a natural rock inscribed D. ED is thought to signify the Erle-Drax family of Ellerton Abbey, which would date the stone to sometime between 1755 and 1887 (see additional notes below). The D on the rock would be for Drax and would therefore date to before 1755. The other symbols are unexplained. However, of the four stones on this boundary line bearing the letters I and S (see also records 558, 559, 560) this is the one on which a small + symbol can be see most clearly between the two letters. It suggests that I and S represent two different family surnames.
Additional Notes
Ellerton Abbey estate was held by people with the surname Erle-Drax from 1755 when it was inherited by Thomas Erle-Drax, the eldest son of Henry Drax and Elizabeth Ernle, heiress to the Erle family estate in Charborough, Dorset. The last person called Erle-Drax to hold Ellerton Abbey, John, died in 1887 leaving the estate to his son Richard, who adopted the splendidly quadruple-barrelled surname Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, but called himself Richard Drax for short.
Image 1 ID
3267 Click image to enlarge
Image 1 Description
Grinton-Ellerton boundary stone GRI-8 on Sharrow Hill, east face, plus inscribed natural rock
Image 2 ID
3268 Click image to enlarge
Image 2 Description
Grinton-Ellerton boundary stone GRI-8 on Sharrow Hill, east face
Image 3 ID
3269 Click image to enlarge
Image 3 Description
Grinton-Ellerton boundary - inscribed natural rock by boundary stone GRI-8 on Sharrow Hill
