<< Our Photo Pages >> Edmundbyers Cross (Muggleswick) - Ancient Cross in England in Northumberland
Submitted by Anne T on Tuesday, 29 August 2017 Page Views: 1986
Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Edmundbyers Cross (Muggleswick)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 4.784 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Northumberland Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Consett Nearest Village: Edmundbyers
Map Ref: NZ0040244761
Latitude: 54.797731N Longitude: 1.995271W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Anne T visited on 28th Aug 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Remains of Edmundbyers Cross, Muggleswick: Marked in italic, old fashioned script on the OS map, I guess I was expecting something a little more exciting, such as a cross base with part of a shaft, but no. Just a cross base. Good job I knew what I was looking for as alongside the road there were other pieces of rectangular rock almost as large.
Sitting almost at the junction of the B6278 to Edmundbyers with the minor road leading almost to Smiddy Shaw Reservoir (just to the north of this road), it would have acted as a way marker. The cross base is located just over 1km from the boundary stone above.
When we got home, I was interested to read this from the Historic England entry: “Edmundbyers Cross is one of only three wayside crosses still in its original position in County Durham and the only known example on the route between Stanhope and Edmundbyers.”
Recorded as Historic England List ID 1017309, this cross base is "one of only three wayside crosses still in its original position in County Durham and the only known example on the route between Stanhope and Edmundbyers."
The cross is situated 64m north of the junction of the Stanhope to Edmundbyers road with a minor road to Waskerley, and just over 1km further along the B6278 from the marker/boundary stone at the junction of the B6278 and Meadows Edge road.
This cross base is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 20255 which adds: "A roughly square socket stone with sides 0.7m and standing 0.3m high. The socket also square has sides 0.2m and is 0.15m deep. This appears to have been a wayside cross but the shaft has completely disappeared."
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