Coxwold, The Village c.1955
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C270017
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17th- and 18th-century houses and cottages make Coxwold a delight to the eye. In the foreground are Spring House (1871, left) and the Prison House (1868, right).The forge is to the far right, and the single-storey house, centre, dates from 1662. Humorist Laurence Sterne, once Vicar of Coxwold, lived at nearby Shandy Hall, where he wrote Tristram Shandy. In nearby Newburgh Priory possibly lie the headless remains of Oliver Cromwell - his daughter is reputed to have brought the body back from Tyburn after the hanging of his corpse in 1660, following the restoration of King Charles II. Mary Cromwell was married to Thomas, 1st Earl Fauconberg, whose name is carried by the local village inn.
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