Over Kellet:village green

Home of Robert Withers or Widders (c.1618-1686), the ‘Thundering man’. His initials can be seen in the lintel to a vanished house (see next image) built in 1673.
The Victoria County History says that ‘the old high road from Lancaster to Kendal goes north through the village, having a branch to Capernwray. It is crossed by the road from Carnforth to Kirkby Lonsdale’. The village green is on this crossroads. In Fox’s time, however, the main road was to the west, running through Carnforth; but the village was still on the road to Kirby Lonsdale.

Image © Meg Twycross 8 October 2009

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