Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| cross, Greystoke | ||
| locality:- | Greystoke | |
| civil parish:- | Greystoke (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | cross | |
| coordinates:- | NY44013087 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4430 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY43 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 58 1) |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Cross" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "VILLAGE CROSS / / / GREYSTOKE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73823 / NY4401230870" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Village cross. Probably C17 on C19 plinth. Red sandstone. Octagonal plinth of 5 steps, the 2 top ones original, surmounted by square base and tapered chamfered shaft with floriated cross head. The burial register records "1623, Nov 8, Buried Jo Nicholson the yonge childe of a poore beggar of the pishe of Broughton, which childe died at the Towne Crosse in Graistoke" which shows that the cross is older than this date." |
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| notes:- |
Mentioned in a parish register, 1623. |
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