About two miles to the east of the village of Rainow in Cheshire, on Ewrin Lane about two hundred yards north of its junction with Hooleyhey Lane, is the second version of a stone marker originally made by James Mellor junior, who wrote the correct date below as '1735', and who was Turner's great-nephew.
'HERE JOHN TUR
NER WAS CAST
AWAY IN A HEAVY
SNOW STORM IN
THE NIGHT IN OR
ABOUT THE YEAR
1755'
John Turner (1706–35) was the son of Richard Turner of Saltersford Hall.
'THE PRINT OF A
WOMANS SHOE WAS
FOUND BY HIS SIDE
IN THE SNOW WERE
HE LAY DEAD'
The stone is mentioned in Alan Garner's novel Thursbitch (2003).
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