Category: Roppa Moor
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A day which started with me looking for a Medieval Cross and ended up uncovering a gruesome Victorian murder
Had a wander around Roppa Moor, north of Helmsley. The cross turned out to be a little disappointing, just the recessed base and a piece of the shaft. This is actually the northernmost of the remains of two wayside crosses (360m apart) that located alongside the supposed medieval ‘pæth‘ that ran south from the junction…