Market or Butter Cross, Barrow-upon-Humber
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Market or Butter Cross, Barrow-upon-Humber
Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: 17 Mar 2018
Scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade II Listed medieval market cross. Also known as Butter Cross, late 19th century photographs show it surmounted bay a gas lamp fed from Barrow's own gas works in St Chad. The channel you can see cut into the cross was to carry the gas pipe.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.67523
Longitude
-0.380629