Browse crosses

Grid Ref:  655 605          Map location:  Click here to view map.

Purpose:  Boundary marker for the parishes of Harford and Ugborough.

Size:  7 inches high, 5½ inches across the arms and incised onto a 4 foot (1.22 metres) high granite boulder, which is approx 1 foot (0.30 metres) wide at the top and 2 foot (0.61 metres) across the bottom.

Information:  The boulder now standing in this spot was never a cross in the accepted sense, but has an incised cross on its West face.

However, it is thought that an actual cross once stood on this spot. This would have been the one taken by Sir William Petre and erected on Three Barrows, as one of four crosses used to mark the boundary of his manor, Brent, with the parish of Harford. The whereabouts of this cross is now unknown, although its damaged remains have been reported as having been seen amongst the ruined cairns on Three Barrows on more than one occasion in the past. The three other crosses were sited at Lower Huntingdon Corner, Western Whittaburrow and Buckland Ford, although the latter is also now missing.