( ? – 1612)
I’ve been holding off local statues for a while. I’ve somehow figured I could keep them aside for a ‘rainy day’. Keep them in the back pocket and pull them out when needing a fall back and I can’t travel far. But I’ve still got some way to go to complete and so, while travelling west, it seems the perfect time.
Alice Nutter was immortalised in 2012 as a statue near Roughlee village where she came from. Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the infamous witch trials she is perhaps the best known woman who lost her life. Widow of a tenant yeoman father, she was fairly wealthy, which set her apart from other suspects. She made no plea other than to state she was not guilty and was subsequently hanged, with seven other women and two men in Lancaster, August 1612.
Situated on Blacko Bar Road between Crowtrees and Roughlee she was designed and created by local artist and architectural steel engineer David Palmer of DP Structures Ltd – see also Nelson’s Shuttle in, yep you’ve guessed it – Nelson. I drive slowly along the road to ensure I don’t miss it, but it easily spotted on the roadside standing beautifully with a demure gaze. I am lucky to arrive when someone has thoughtfully placed a posy in her hand, giving her a humane touch and a hint of spring to come.
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