Stang Foot

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  • Description

    "A farm much given over to horses at the foot of Stang Forest. The Stang is a formidable hill between the Greta Valley and Arkengarthdale. Stang is apparently a word taken from the Norse meaning a pole or a stake. Compare with Yorkshire dialect biggerstang (a builders' scaffold pole) and the Yorkshire folk custom of 'Riding the Stang' where a person to be upheld for public ridicule (especially for wife-beating) was placed astride a pole and carried around to the accompaniment of whistles and jeers. http://www.viking.no/e/england/e-viking_words_2.htm (Not sure this is entirely relevant, but is interesting in its own right)." Photo by Oliver Dixon, 2007.

  • Owner

    Oliver Dixon

  • Source

    Geograph (Geograph)

  • License

    What does this mean? Creative Commons License

  • Further information

    Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/365521
    Resource type: Image
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 3 years, 10 months ago
    Viewed: 393 times
    Picture Taken: 2007-03-13

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