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Gally's Bedstock

Other OS name in the Parish of Irton with Santon

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . These , known locally as Gaily 's Bedstocks ( ' Goliath's bedposts ' ) , are four large recumbent stones ( ex inf . MissM . C . Fair ) .