
(Click photograph for a larger image)
Location: Inside Craven Museum, Skipton
Latitude: 53.96244 Longitude: -2.01560
NGR: SD 99075 51821
Inscription: W.B Co
(Right stone in the photograph). The 'B' in the inscription is uncertain, as the top of the block has broken off. The original location of this stone is unrecorded, but it probably marked the boundary of one of William Bagshaw's leases marked on the Brailsford survey of 1781. Of the 51 leases named on the Brailsford survey, William Bagshaw's name is associated with eight of them. Originally from a landed Derbyshire family, William Bagshaw (1713-1785) inherited the estates and mining interests from his godfather William Drake of Coates Hall, near Barnoldswick, in 1758. He continued to invest in the moor, as he was granted a lease in 1774 for 21 years by William, Duke of Devonshire. There was a long-lasting interest by the Bagshaw family in the area. A Bagshaw of Derbyshire is recorded as having interests in the area as early as 1730, and the family were still working the mines as late as the 1840s. See also MS 7, and MS 68.