Northbourne: Headless Cross
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Northbourne: Headless Cross
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 15 Jul 2015
Nowadays the name Headless Cross is almost completely lost, although the junction is still named as such by the Ordnance Survey on its largest scale maps. It is said to have derived from the original 'T' shape of the junction of East Howe Lane (left) with Wimborne Road, although this is surely a standard junction shape. In everyone's living memory it has been a standard crossroads with The Broadway, which runs off to the right and must have been connected here at least 50 years ago and possibly very much longer. It is a major crossroads on the main Wimborne Road through to Kinson, with East Howe Lane being an important suburban route, though unclassified. The white building on the corner is Northbourne Surgery.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.767499
Longitude
-1.893456