Percy's Cross with Enclosing Wall and Railings

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Percy's Cross (between Powburn & Wooperton)


Hedgeley Civil Parish

  • Description

    "Wayside cross. Square socket stone carrying shaft with chamfered angles; each face bears relief carvings of crescents, fusils and lucies (pikes), with fetterlocks on the angle chamfers. The carved motifs are all Percy emblems; the cross commemorates Sir Ralph Percy, who fell leading the Lancastrian army at the battle of Hedgeley Moor, 23rd April 1464. Enclosure overgrown with weeds. Access over locked gate! In the background is the trackbed of the old Alnwick to Cornhill railway. " Photo by Russel Wills, 2014.

  • Owner

    Russel Wills

  • Source

    Geograph (Geograph)

  • License

    What does this mean? Creative Commons License

  • Further information

    Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4035757
    Resource type: Image
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 3 years, 11 months ago
    Viewed: 413 times
    Picture Taken: 2014-06-19

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