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Boundary and wayside cross known as Catshaw Cross

England
List entry 1011759
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1011759
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.01 hectares
Grid reference
SE 20611 03489
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Catshaw Cross is a wayside and boundary cross located in Yorkshire, England, dating to the medieval period. The monument survives as a stone cross shaft, representing a type of marker common to northern England during the Middle Ages, serving functions both as a territorial boundary indicator and as a waymarker for travellers. Such crosses typically stood at significant landscape junctures, marking parish boundaries, hundred divisions, or routes of established importance. The cross remains a material record of medieval administrative geography and the practical infrastructure of movement through the Yorkshire landscape.

Boundary and wayside cross known as Catshaw Cross is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011759. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Boundary and wayside cross known as Catshaw Cross?

Catshaw Cross is a wayside and boundary cross located in Yorkshire, England, dating to the medieval period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011759.

Who is responsible for protecting Boundary and wayside cross known as Catshaw Cross?

Boundary and wayside cross known as Catshaw Cross is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1011759.

What other scheduled monuments are near Boundary and wayside cross known as Catshaw Cross?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wayside cross south of Hartcliff Road (3.1 km), Wayside cross on Langsett Moor known as Lady Cross (6.9 km), Ewden Beck ring-cairn. (7.5 km).

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Monuments
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Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
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Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
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Geology
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LiDAR
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Wayside cross south of Hartcliff Road
3.1 km
Wayside cross on Langsett Moor known as Lady Cross
6.9 km
Ewden Beck ring-cairn.
7.5 km
Ewden Beck round barrow cemetery and cross-dyke
7.8 km
Round cairn 200m west of Margery Hill triangulation pillar
8.1 km
Glass furnace, Bolsterstone
8.1 km
Reconstructed packhorse bridge from Derwent Hall See also SOUTH YORKSHIRE 1267
9.1 km
Reconstructed packhorse bridge from Derwent Hall See also DERBYSHIRE 18
9.1 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Boundary and wayside cross known as Catshaw Cross

Boundary and wayside cross known as Catshaw Cross stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.

The wider landscape

Around Boundary and wayside cross known as Catshaw Cross

Battle of Adwalton Moor 1643Battle (1643) · ~16.1 miles
Domesday entry for birchworth, Yorkshire →
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