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Headstone with double ogee top. Plain level face without any sign of decoration. The inscription is very faint, but just legible. The stone stands on the edge of the drainage channel dug against the church wall.

Here lieth ye body
of John TOWNSEND
of North Leigh who
died September [--]
Anno Dom
1691

[BR: "1691 17 Sep TOWNSEND John widower" ]


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