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Lady Mabel's Penance
Walk barefoot to the cross.
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- What's there
- Stump of a medieval cross
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- Wigan
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- Romantic
Barefoot every week.
Sir William Bradshaigh was away for years, and his wife Lady Mabel married a Welsh knight. When William returned, he killed the knight at Newton-le-Willows. As penance Mabel walked barefoot once a week from Haigh Hall to the cross on Standishgate. William and Mabel were real, but there is no evidence she remarried.