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SrrperDEN Cross is marked upon the 6-inch Ordnance map, 
at the corner where the new road turns off towards the toll 
gate ; this cross has disappeared. 
About a mile south east of the cross last mentioned, with- 
in a few yards of one of the bye roads, there stands a cross of 
which a sketch is given, which is generally known as Stiperden 
or Mount cross. Nothing is known of its history, and beyond 
placing it in the general class of wayside crosses, I am unable to 
elucidate the object of its erection. 
Standing lonely upon Heptonstall Moor is Rears Cross. The 
arms have been broken away, giving it an appearance which 
may have suggested its local appellation ‘‘The Long Stoop.” 
Sufficient however remains to show what the cross was originally, 
and in the drawing are the arms indicated. All that I could learn 
from the ‘intelligent natives” was to the effect that it answered 
the purpose of a guide post to Rastric Greave, a farm house, 
quite out of the ordinary track, nestling amongst the valleys to 
the east of Black Hambledon. 
Wiswett Cross.—No trace of the original cross now remains. 
The base stone, into which has been inserted a modern cross of a 
plain Latin type, stands near the entrance to Wiswell Hall, the 
seat of the Paslews, and it is possible that this cross may have 
some connection with John Paslew, the last Abbot of Whalley, 
though nothing on this point is definitely known. 
The survey of the crosses within the district proposed at the 
commencement of this paper is now completed. In but few 
cases can we arrive at really satisfactory conclusions as to their 
history, many of them being so enveloped in the mystery of un- 
certain tradition as to render their extrication almost impossible. 
But still no one who has not taken up the study of some kindred 
subject can have any idea what interesting facts can be obtained 
from sources apparently the most unpromising. From such 
sources day by day additional facts will be accumulated, throw- 
ing light upon many points previously involved in doubt and 
uncertainty, and the present paper can, at the best, be looked upon 
only as a compilation of the facts and opinions on the subject which 
are at present available. Further study would without doubt 
modify many of the views here expressed, and it is with the hope 
that they will be thus regarded that I bring them forward. Not 
that there is any desire to avoid criticism but rather to invite it, 
to the end that the truth upon these matters may if possible be 
reached. If by this imperfect attempt to elucidate the history of 
our local examples of crosses. an additional interest be given to 
these remains, and I should, in however small a degree, be the 
means of leading others to a study of them, I shall feel that 
the paper has not been written in vain. No more interesting 
