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Boundary cross 50m NW of Northend Cottage is a medieval wayside cross located in Worcestershire. The monument marks a territorial or parochial boundary, as indicated by its designation and location name, reflecting the common medieval practice of demarcating land divisions with stone crosses. Such boundary crosses typically date from the medieval period, though precise dating for this particular example is not documented in the readily available heritage record. The cross represents the surviving physical evidence of medieval administrative and ecclesiastical geography in the English countryside.
Boundary cross 50m NW of Northend Cottage is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014905. View the official record →
Boundary cross 50m NW of Northend Cottage is a medieval wayside cross located in Worcestershire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014905.
Boundary cross 50m NW of Northend Cottage 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 1014905.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Boundary cross at entrance to Quay Lane (1.6 km), Ringwork known as Hanley Castle 520m south of the Church of St. Mary (2.1 km), Tower of old church (3.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Boundary cross 50m NW of Northend Cottage's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Boundary cross 50m NW of Northend Cottage stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.