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Lamplugh is a parish some two miles east of the Marron valley. The parish extends for about six miles from the north to south, and three miles from east to west.

The church has been dedicated to St,Michael, and stands on the site of an old chapel. The vestry here was previously part of the Lamplugh family mortuary chapel.

The church however has been much renewed, but some of it can be seen to be some 600 years old, and there is a charming little window with two carved faces. One of the old memorials is to Thomas and Francis Lamplugh, the other being to their daughter who was born in 1693 and died within a few months of her wedding.

In 1747 one Richard Brisco of Lamplugh Hall bequeathed a yearly rental of £12 payable out of Skelsmoor lands...to be distributed amongst poor widows and the school. These days, Lamplugh Hall, now a farmstead, still has an ancient feature at its entrance...an archway bearing the Lamplugh family crest with the date 1595.

The row of houses at Cross gates originally housed the navvies who constructed the reservoir at Cogramoss. A building near Brook House housed Lamplugh's first school. Later the school was used to house the local hearse, and somewhat naturally became known as 'Hearse House'. These days the building is used to store hay.