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Millennium Stone, Danby High Moor

This is a list of standing stones on the North York Moors, in North Yorkshire, England. Standing stones on the moors take many shapes, with most being crosses, and many of these mark boundaries between parishes, though some commemorate people or mythical legends that have grown up around that location.

History[edit]

The North York Moors are said to have moor standing stones and crosses than anywhere else in England, having at least 1,300 crosses with the boundary of the national park.[1] The crosses and stones which adorn the moors can take forms and reasons for their placement. There are preaching crosses, memorial crosses, boundary crosses, way-marker crosses and market crosses.[2]

A Crosses Walk exists covering a circular route some 53 miles (85 km) with Goathland as a start and finishing point. The walk takes in 13 of the stone crosses on the North York Moors.[3] During the 1970s and 1980s, the Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team (SRMRT) hosted a marathon event whereby the walk (or run) was undertaken within 24 hours to provide the SRMRT with much needed funds.[4][5]

Listings[edit]

Standing stones on the North York Moors
Name Location Grid reference[a] Details Ref
Abbey Cross Whitby NZ902113 Medieval cross which stands on Abbey Plain, the cemetery for Whitby Abbey in Medieval times [6][7]
Ana Cross Rosedale Abbey NZ724938 Erected to replace the Ain Howe Cross which is now preserved in Lastingham church. The replacement cross was erected in 1949, and repaired in 1998 after damage was incurred in 1995. It is now grade II listed. [8][9]
Botton Cross Botton NZ697020
Cooper Cross Sutton Bank NZ515829 Remains of a wayside marker at the crossing of a drovers road and the road between Helmsley and the Vale of Mowbray. [10][11]
Donna Cross NZ545034 A boundary stone with initials of two families on the stone [12]
Fat Betty
(White Cross) 		Rosedale NZ682020
High Cross Appleton-le-Moors NZ734885 A Medieval cross made of sandstone [13]
Job Cross Castleton NZ686110 The cross here has lost its two arms. One story is that Puritans wanted to still mark the way, but wanted to remove the symbolism. [14]
Lilla Cross Goathland NZ889987 A cross that marked the meeting point of four Medieval parishes and the meeting of the Old Salt Road and Panniermans Way. [15]
Low Cross Appleton-le-Moors NZ734883 Located at the edge of Appleton-le-Moors, this cross has been called Low Cross as it is on the same road to Lastingham as the High Cross which is further north. [16]
Malo Cross Saltergate NZ868949 Originally erected in 1616 nearer to the Whitby to Pickering Road, the cross disappeared in 1870, but was returned in 1920 to its current location. [17]
Margery Stone Rosedale NZ675013 A 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high sandstone waymarker, probably Medieval, with the initials TD carved on it (for Thomas Duncombe). The stone also marked the boundary of the Rosedale West, Farndale east and Westerdale parishes. [18][19][20]
Mauley Cross NZ797943
Millennium Cross Rosedale Erected in the year 2000 to mark the Millennium
Millennium Stone Danby High Moor NZ693013 Erected in February 2000 by the North York Moors Authority,the stone came from a quarry in Spaunton, and was dedicated in a ceremony in May of the same year. Later that year, a palaeontologist contacted the NYMA to inform them that the back of the stone had dinosaur footprints on it. [21][22]
Old Ralph Cross Westerdale NZ675020 Erected c. 11th century, of hard gritstone. 200 yards (180 m) west of Young Ralph Cross. [23]
Percy Cross NZ606118
Robinson's Cross Osmotherley NZ486956 A boundary marker on the road between Osmotherley and Hawnby [24][25]
Roppa Cross (North) NZ587930
Roppa Cross (South)
Siss Cross NZ704115
Steeple Cross Kepwick NZ495902 The cross marks the junction of Cleave Dyke and a drovers road across the moors. Possibly used by the nuns at Arden. [26][27]
York Cross
(Jack Cross) 		Sneaton NZ878015 [28]
Young Ralph Cross Westerdale 54°24′32″N 0°57′29″W / 54.409°N 0.958°W / 54.409; -0.958 The cross is 9 feet (2.7 m) tall on the road between Blakey Ridge and Castleton. It is used as the symbol of the North Yorks Moors National Park. [29][30]
  1. ^ Based on Ordnance Survey mapping

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Stones criss-cross the North York Moors". Darlington and Stockton Times. 15 May 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  2. ^ Graham 1993, p. 6–8.
  3. ^ Morrison, John (1996). North York Moors. Basingstoke: AA Pub. p. 93. ISBN 0749511974.
  4. ^ Boyes, Malcolm (1992). North York moors. London: New Orchard. p. 156. ISBN 1872226574.
  5. ^ "Crosses Challenge - Scarborough & Ryedale MRT". srmrt.org.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  6. ^ Graham 1993, p. 49.
  7. ^ Historic England. "Whitby Abbey Cross (Grade I) (1148373)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  8. ^ Historic England. "Ana Cross (Grade II) (1149023)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  9. ^ Blow, John (14 March 2022). "Spring air another incentive to visit landmarks". The Yorkshire Post. p. 18. ISSN 0963-1496.
  10. ^ Raistrick 1974, p. 86.
  11. ^ Historic England. "Wayside cross known as Cooper Cross on Sutton Bank (1010398)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  12. ^ Graham 1993, p. 16.
  13. ^ Historic England. "High Cross (Grade II) (1356666)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  14. ^ Graham 1993, p. 33.
  15. ^ Historic England. "Lilla Cross on Lilla Howe, Fylingdales Moor (1010076)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  16. ^ Historic England. "Low Cross, a reused standing stone on Kirkgate Lane in Appleton-le-Moors (1012888)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  17. ^ Graham 1993, p. 44.
  18. ^ Historic England. "Margery Bradley (Grade II) (1172847)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  19. ^ Historic England. "The Margery Bradley standing stone (1017827)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  20. ^ Estill 2018, p. 41.
  21. ^ Estill 2018, p. 36.
  22. ^ Woods, Peter (2018). "39: The Millennium Stone on Danby High Moor". The History Tree; Moments in a Lifetime of a Memorable Tree. Danby: North Yorkshire Moors Association. pp. 129–130. ISBN 9780956577955.
  23. ^ Historic England. "Old Ralph Cross (Grade II*) (1179098)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  24. ^ Graham 1993, p. 14.
  25. ^ Estill 2018, p. 7.
  26. ^ Falconer 1975, p. 98.
  27. ^ Historic England. "Section of the Cleave Dyke system on Arden Little Moor known as Steeple Cross Dyke including the Steeple Cross boundary stone (1010533)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  28. ^ Historic England. "York Cross wayside cross, 700m north east of Foster Howes on Sneaton High Moor (1009857)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  29. ^ Historic England. "Young Ralph Cross (Grade II*) (1148563)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  30. ^ "Corner of Yorkshire: Ralph Crosses". The Yorkshire Post. 29 December 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2021.

Sources[edit]

  • Estill, Steve (2018). Stones and crosses of the North York moors. Stroud: Fonthill Media. ISBN 978-1-78155-648-1.
  • Falconer, Alan A. (1975). Rambler's Riding : the Moorlands of North Yorkshire. London: R. Hale. ISBN 0709149441.
  • Graham, Lewis (1993). The crosses of the North Yorkshire Moors. Whitby: North Riding Publishing. ISBN 0-9521159-0-5.
  • Raistrick, Arthur, ed. (1966). North York Moors;. London: H.M.S.O. ISBN 0117004855.

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