Plague Stone
Other OS name in the Parish of Taxal
Historical Forms
- Stone 1842 OS
Etymology
( 101–995816 ) , 1 '' OS , Standing Stone 6 ″ OS , Stone 1842 OS , cf. del Horeston '1348ChFor (p) , ' the hoar stone ' , v. hār 2 , stān . The modern name doubtless derives from the suitability of this place , a standing stone near the Lyme Handley boundary , for use as a quarantined rendezvous in times of epidemic sickness .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Normanwood
- Overton
- Whaley, Whaley Hall
- Yeardsley, Yeardsley Hall
- Hawkhurst, Hawkhurst Head
- Hockerley, Hockerley Lane
- Lighthassells
- Ringstone, Ringstone Clough
- Stoneheads
- Whaley Bridge
Other OS name
- Blackhillgate
- Botany Bleach Works
- Castedge
- Cat & Fiddle Inn
- Cats Tor
- Coopers Nose
- Crowhill
- Dale of Goyt
- Deep Clough
- Deep Clough
- Derbyshire Bridge
- Dowry
- Embridge Causeway
- Errwood
- Foxhole Hollow
- Foxlow Edge
- Goyt's Bridge & Goyt's Moss, Goyts Clough, Goyts Clough Mill
- Hillbridge Wood
- Hoo Moor
- Intake
- Issue Torr
- Jacob's Cabin
- Jep Clough
- Knipe
- Ladbitch Wood
- Lanehead
- Lodge Cottages & Lodge Wood
- Macclesfield Rd
- Madscar
- Marchington Fm
- Masters
- Mill Clough
- Moss Ho
- Oakend
- Oldfield
- Oldgate Nick
- Oxbent
- Park Wood
- Pym Chair
- Quarry Bank
- Reddish
- Shining Tor
- Shooter's Clough
- Sitch Houses
- Stake Clough & Stake Side
- The Street
- Stubbin
- Sunnybank
- Sunnyside
- Taxal Edge
- Taxal Lodge
- Taxal Wood
- Toddbrook Reservoir
- The Tors
- Windgather Rocks
- Withinleach Moor
- Bankside
- Black Hill
- Bothomes Hall
- Brook Ho
- Brookfield Ho
- Brownough
- Deane Cottage
- Diglee
- Fallhey
- Furness Clough, Furness Vale
- Goyt Mill
- Greens Clough
- Hadfield Fold
- Joule Bridge
- Kishfield Bridge
- Hurst Clough
- Longside Plantation
- New House Fm
- Nook Cottage
- Pennant End & Pennant Knob
- Scar Wood
- Slatersbank, Slatersbank Wood
- Start
- Sticking Mires
- Toddbrook Reservoir
- Waterside Bridge
- Whaley Lane
- Whaley Mill
- Whaley Moor