Old Cumbria Gazetteer - cross, Lofshaw Hill

cross, Lofshaw Hill

Lofshaw Cross

locality:-

Lofshaw Hill

civil parish:-

Hutton (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

cross

coordinates:-

NY38732782 (about)

1Km square:-

NY3827

10Km square:-

NY32

evidence:-

old map:- Clarke 1787 (plate 5)
placename:- Loftshow Cross

source data:-

Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
marked by a cross

Loftshow Cross

evidence:-

old text:- Clarke 1787

source data:-

Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.

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Page 54:- "..."
"A little beyond the eight-mile post, on the right hand, is an hill called Lofts-Cross, on which is a stone pillar, said by some to have been erected by the Romans for a guide over these morasses: its appearance, however, contradicts this opinion; and if I may be allowed to give my sentiments, its date must be much posterior to the Roman aera in Great Britain. ..."

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