Haigh Cross, Lindley cum Quarmby
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Haigh Cross, Lindley cum Quarmby
Image: © Humphrey Bolton Taken: 13 Feb 2007
This is a 19C replacement for a 14C wayside cross, and is inscribed on the E face, below the Thornhill Arms, 'Re-erected / by / T T / 1808 / After Being / wilfully / pulled down / Haigh Cross'. On the W face is a Cornish Chough in a rectangular panel and below it 'Quarmbys / de / Quarmby / Crest / 1304. T.T. was Thomas Thornhill. (Information from W B Crump, Huddersfield highways down the ages, reprinted 1968).
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Image Location
Latitude
53.665574
Longitude
-1.83954