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Malo Cross at the foot of Whinney Nab just south of Fylingdales Early Warning Station. Erected in 1619 by Sir Richard Egerton as a boundary marker for his manor. It is named after the de Mauley family of Mulgrave Castle near Sandsend. It still acts as a parish boundary marker today. It went missing for about fifty years in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It was found in a garden in Pic

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Malo Cross at the foot of Whinney Nab just south of Fylingdales Early Warning Station. Erected in 1619 by Sir Richard Egerton as a boundary marker for his manor. It is named after the de Mauley family of Mulgrave Castle near Sandsend. It still acts as a parish boundary marker today. It went missing for about fifty years in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It was found in a garden in Pickering and returned to its rightful place in 1924. This image was taken in December 2011

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