ESKLETS CROSS

Grid Ref. 658005 

The cross lay close to the old railway line. It was broken in half by vandals in 1975, then about 1984, the two parts disappeared. There is no base so perhaps the cross was an old boundary stone (along the Farndale-Westerdale boundary). 

FACE STONE CROSS

Grid Ref. 597015 

600ft South-East of the round barrow on Round Hill on one of the highest parts of the Moors. It lies on the ancient once paved trod which ran East-West from Bloworth Junction to Clay Bank, known as Street Way. Face Stone is mentioned in 1642 perambulation as ' the bounder called Facestone on the Streete Way. There are two other face stones. One is in York Museum and has been dated late Bronze or early Iron age, while the second is on Three Howes Rigg above Castleton (681102).

FRIAR'S CROSS

Grid Ref. 488899 

A cross base, now placed by the Forestry Commission on a concrete plinth, at the edge of a forestry track. It is unusual in that the bottom part is rectangular and the middle part is square. It marks an old track from the west of the Moors to Rievaulx and Helmsley.

GRIFF CROSS

Grid Ref. 591846 

Part of a carved pillar from Rievaulx Abbey marks the site. It was probably erected by medieval monks. 

GUISBOROUGH CROSS

Grid Ref. 615160 

HAWSKER CROSS

Grid Ref. 923076 

This is the second oldest cross on the Moors. The decorated shaft is of Anglo-Saxon origin and the figure of a lamb can be made out on one face.

HELMSLEY CROSS

Grid Ref. 613838 

The shaft and base are of medieval origin with a modern head mounted on six well-worn steps.  The 19th century monument to the second Lord Feversham stands close by.

HIGH CROSS, APPLETON-LE-MOORS

Grid Ref. 733885

 A large base similar to that of Fat Betty. The cross may be associated with the Saxon Monastery at Lastingham (654-867 AD), perhaps marking a road to it. It is on the road to Appleton-le-Moors, mentioned in the oldest charters as Dweldapilton and later as Wode Appleton.

HOB CROSS

Grid Ref. 643135 

Sited on a mound, not a tumulus, but a mass of small gravel and sand laid down as an esker during the ice age. It is not a medieval cross. It is engraved R C and 1789.

JENNY BRADLEY CROSS

Grid Ref. 611023

Located at a point where the track started to descend the escarpment to Stokesley, and where the Thurkilsti trackway joins the Rudland Rigg Road. There is no record of a Jenny Bradley but a small coppice on the corner of Swainsea Lane and Bradley Road, near Cawthorn, have the same name. Margery Bradley, on Blakey Rigg,is supposedly Jenny's sister. The name Bradley is a corruption of the medieval "Breadlesse" the name for a begger. In 1609 the estate was bought by Sir David Foulis, a Scot who came to England with James 1st. Sir William Foulis was the 8th baronet. After his death in 1845 his daughter took the estate in marriage to the Sidneys, Lords De L'Isle and Dudley. The boundary stone is engraved:-

JOB CROSS

Grid Ref. 627026

A roughly carved stone with no base, lying alongside the Westerdale Estate boundary. 

JOB CROSS

Grid Ref. 686110

Sited on the Stoxla Road. The name is a corruption of hob, the place where the hobgoblins foregather. It probably marks the place where the ancient paved way to Guisborough (known nearer to Guisborough as the Quaker's Trod) joined the Stoxla Road. The weathered base has partly sunk into the peat. 

JOHN CROSS

Grid Ref. 900027

The base and part of the shaft lie on the Old Robin Hood's Bay Road where it joins the old Salt or Fish Road from Saltersgate to Robin Hood's Bay. Cemented into the socket is a 2ft 4in boundary marker with C inscribed on the south face. It marked the edge of the Cholmley Estate. C for Charles Cholmley Esq. of Whitby Abbey, an ancestor of Sir Richard Cholmley, first Lord of Whitby Abbey, descendent of Hugh Cholmondeley. The family may be traced back to the Norman Conquest. The cross is probably named after John de Steyngrave, the Abbot of Whitby 1245-1258.

JOHN O' MAN'S CROSS

Grid Ref. 615075

 Was sited on high ground on the track to Baysdale Abbey.