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Grey plaque № 49342

Middleham, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

This cross is thought to commemorate the grant obtained for Middleham in 1479 of a fair and market twice yearly, in Whitsun week and at the Feast of St. Simon and St. Jude, by Richard Duke of Gloucester, later King Richard III. The heraldic animal may be his own cognisance of the white boar, or the

emblem of the family of his wife, Anne Nevill, co-heiress of the Lorship of Middleham.

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