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Little John's Cross

England
List entry 1002495
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1002495
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0 hectares
Grid reference
SX 90171 91349
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Little John's Cross is a medieval wayside cross located in Devon, England. The monument dates to the medieval period and survives as a stone cross shaft, representing a type of monument commonly erected in rural areas during the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. Such crosses typically marked routes of travel, parish boundaries, or places of religious significance. The site is recorded in the National Heritage List for England under entry 1002495.

Little John's Cross is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002495. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Little John's Cross?

Little John's Cross is a medieval wayside cross located in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002495.

Who is responsible for protecting Little John's Cross?

Little John's 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 1002495.

What other scheduled monuments are near Little John's Cross?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ide Bridge (0.6 km), The medieval Exe Bridge, St Edmund's Church, and medieval tenement remains, lying between the River Exe and Frog Street (1.7 km), St Nicholas' Priory (1.9 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
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
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Ide Bridge
0.6 km
The medieval Exe Bridge, St Edmund's Church, and medieval tenement remains, lying between the River Exe and Frog Street
1.7 km
St Nicholas' Priory
1.9 km
Medieval bridge and part of a late medieval conduit under Holloway Street
2.3 km
Linear round barrow cemetery at Castle Park, Alphington
2.9 km
Roman signal station 450m north of Marshall Farm
2.9 km
Enclosures NE of Peamore Cottage
3.5 km
Earthwork enclosure 220yds (200m) NE of Church Path Hill Plantation
3.9 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Little John's Cross

Little John's Cross stands on Permian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.

The wider landscape

Around Little John's Cross

ExeterRoman town · ~1.3 miles
Domesday entry for Cowick, Devon →
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