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Stocks in Churchtown Village

These stocks were built in 1741 by John Linaker . The first person to be put in them was Thomas Rimmer on the 3rd June 1861 when he was sentenced to six hours for drunkeness . Presumably everybody in the area had been law-abiding for the previous 120 years .

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Uploaded on July 20, 2011
Taken on July 19, 2011