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Wayside cross 950m east of Spout House Plantation

England
List entry 1009370
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1009370
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.01 hectares
Grid reference
SE 58699 92992
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Wayside cross 950m east of Spout House Plantation is a medieval cross located in Yorkshire, England. The monument survives as a standing stone cross of the type commonly erected beside routes and at boundaries during the medieval period. Such wayside crosses served practical and religious functions, marking pathways, parish boundaries, and places of devotion for medieval travellers. The cross remains an important record of medieval landscape organisation and religious practice in the Yorkshire countryside.

Wayside cross 950m east of Spout House Plantation is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009370. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Wayside cross 950m east of Spout House Plantation?

Wayside cross 950m east of Spout House Plantation is a medieval cross located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009370.

Who is responsible for protecting Wayside cross 950m east of Spout House Plantation?

Wayside cross 950m east of Spout House Plantation 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 1009370.

What other scheduled monuments are near Wayside cross 950m east of Spout House Plantation?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Rievaulx Abbey Cistercian monastery: inner and outer precinct, water-management works, agricultural features, enclosures and ancillary buildings (8.3 km), Griff Cross, wayside cross 800m NNE of Griff Farm on the road from Helmsley to Rievaulx (8.4 km), Round barrow 600m west of Grange Farm (8.7 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
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Rievaulx Abbey Cistercian monastery: inner and outer precinct, water-management works, agricultural features, enclosures and ancillary buildings
8.3 km
Griff Cross, wayside cross 800m NNE of Griff Farm on the road from Helmsley to Rievaulx
8.4 km
Round barrow 600m west of Grange Farm
8.7 km
Griff medieval settlement and Cistercian monastic grange, 400m west of Griff Farm
9.2 km
Helmsley Castle: twelfth century ringwork, twelfth to fourteenth century enclosure castle and sixteenth century mansion
9.6 km
Helmsley Bridge
9.8 km
Round barrow 60m north east of Riccal Bridge
9.9 km
Three round barrows 800m ENE of Helmsley Bridge
9.9 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Wayside cross 950m east of Spout House Plantation

Wayside cross 950m east of Spout House Plantation stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.

The wider landscape

Around Wayside cross 950m east of Spout House Plantation

AldboroughRoman town · ~19.9 milesCatterickRoman town · ~22.8 milesBattle of Northallerton 1138Battle (1138) · ~14.3 milesBattle of the Standard 1138Battle (1138) · ~14.4 milesBattle of Myton 1319Battle (1319) · ~18.6 milesBattle of Boroughbridge (1322)Battle (1322) · ~19.9 miles
Domesday entry for Stainton, Yorkshire →
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