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horses, between Halifax and Brunshaw,” adding as if to give 
more weight to the authority, he had quoted: ‘‘An he wur a 
farlarned chap wur Joonas,—he wur a preycher.” The crosses 
referred to are all placed in a prominent position, upon rising 
ground, the intention being, I presume, that they might be 
the more clearly outlined against the horizon, and answer 
the same purposes as the cairns which are placed at the 
summit of the passes in the mountainous districts of Westmore- 
land and Cumberland. Still further light is thrown upon this 
point by a passage in the diary of Ralph Thoresby, the antiquary: 
in the autumn of 1702, he visited his friends Charles and Richard 
Towneley, of Towneley. He writes Sep. 1.—-‘* We rode about 
5 miles over the hills in Keighley parish till we entered Lan- 
cashire. Upon the height of the mountain stands Camil cross, 
which we left upon the right designing for Burnley ; but after we 
had left the lime kilns below, and ascended a steep and danger- 
ous precipice, the road dwindled away upon a huge boggy 
mountain, where we wandered in sight of a distant house to which 
we could find no road. At length through the enclosures having 
come at one, we were surprised to find that tho’ a large house 
and substantial people, (bringing usa large silver tankard of ale), 
yet had no horse road to the market town: but pulling down 
part of a dry wall, we passed through his, and his neighbour's 
grounds till we recovered a blind lane, and rode through a con- 
tinued thicket, several times passing a beck, till at length we met 
amore open road.’ This description of the state of the roads 
around Wycollar Hall, for such, doubtless was the ‘ large house’ 
referred to, would certainly indicate that some guide was re- 
quired to enable the strauger to thread his way across these 
desolate wilds. ‘This want would be met to a certain extent by 
the crosses referred to. 
Wipvor Cross stood upon the rising ground just on the 
Lancashire side of the county boundary, on the road through the 
Thursden valley to Hebden Bridge; and Thursden cross stood near 
the old inn, now pulled down, which was situated on the same 
road. Both these have fallen a prey to the repairer of highways. 
The Widdop cross lay for some years by the roadside after having 
been rescued from the degrading office of covering a drain on the 
roadside, by Mr. Tattersall Wilkinson, to whom I am indebted 
for many valuable notes upon the antiquities of this district, with 
which he is thoroughly acquainted. 
The base stone of-Nogworth cross may still be seen in 
a lane near the public house at Rogerham gate. The socket 
hole is underneath, the stone having been turned over to make 
room for the carts to pass to the Monk Hall Quarries. This 
cross is supposed to have been erected by the Abbot of Kirkstall, 
