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| White Cross, Saddleback | ||
| locality:- | Saddleback | |
| civil parish:- | Threlkeld (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | memorial | |
| locality type:- | cross | |
| coordinates:- | NY32382811 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3228 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY32 | |
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 CDI67.jpg (taken 11.6.2015)  CDI68.jpg (taken 11.6.2015) |
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| It is not clear which cross is the older, and which a copycat. The large one is not
exactly in keeping with a lonely fell. |
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| hearsay:- |
There was a small cross made of quartzite stones, placed as a memorial to a walker
who died on the fell nearby. It was enlarged by Harold Robinson to its 10x16 size,
during visits to the fells from 1945 onward. |
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