Hurst Cross
Introduction
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Hurst Cross
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 2 Mar 2011
(If only we could Photoshop out those lampposts!) Hurst Cross is the name of a small area of Ashton-Under-Lyne. In the first half of the nineteenth century, Hurst Cross was a very small hamlet composed of a single street, commencing at where the cemetery is now and ending where Image] is now (see https://web.archive.org/web/20060620100649/http://www.certificates.fsnet.co.uk/OLDHURST.htm for Aaron Miller's recollections of Hurst and Hurst brook from 1832). This substantial stone cross was built in 1868 - presumably the road from Ashton to Lees had been made by then. It is at the junction of King's Road with Queen's Road and Lees Road. It is interesting to compare the view now, with http://www.c5d.co.uk/hurstpages.php , a photograph taken ca1900
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Image Location
Latitude
53.500541
Longitude
-2.078504