Saxon Cross
Saxon Cross is a monument in Ilam, Staffordshire Moorlands, England. Saxon Cross is situated nearby to the forest Hinkley Wood, as well as near Ilam Hall Bunkhouse.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of the Holy Cross and Church of St Bartholomew, Blore.
Church of the Holy Cross
Church
Photo: Dennis Thorley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of the Holy Cross is the Church of England parish church of Ilam, Staffordshire, England. It is within the grounds of Ilam Park. The church is a Grade I listed building, and has been since 1967. Church of the Holy Cross is situated 1,300 feet east of Saxon Cross.
Church of St Bartholomew, Blore
Church
Photo: Nikki Mahadevan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Bartholomew, Blore is situated 1 mile southeast of Saxon Cross.
Castern Hall
Farm
Photo: John Darch, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castern Hall, also known as Casterne Hall, is a privately owned 18th-century country house in the Manifold Valley, near Ilam, Staffordshire, England. Castern Hall is situated 1¼ miles north of Saxon Cross.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dovedale and Calton.
Dovedale
Locality
Dovedale is a valley in the Peak District of England. The land is owned by the National Trust and attracts a million visitors annually. The valley was cut by the River Dove and runs for just over 3 miles between Milldale in the north and a wooded ravine, near Thorpe Cloud and Bunster Hill, in the south.
Calton
Village
Photo: Clive Woolliscroft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Calton is a village and a former parochial chapelry and civil parish, now in the parish of Waterhouses, in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England. Calton is situated 1½ miles west of Saxon Cross.
Thorpe
Village
Photo: John Darch, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thorpe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire; it is on the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border, on the east bank of the River Dove, about four miles north of Ashbourne. Thorpe is situated 1½ miles east of Saxon Cross.
Saxon Cross
- Type: Monument
- Category: historic site
- Location: Ilam, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.05231° or 53° 3′ 8″ northLongitude
-1.80921° or 1° 48′ 33″ westOpen location code
9C5W352R+W8OpenStreetMap ID
node 4587952185OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monument
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