Broken Cross
Other OS name in the Parish of Rudheath Lordship
Historical Forms
- Old Broken Cross (p.h.), Broken Cross Farm 1831 Bry
Etymology
( 110–684732 ) , Old Broken Cross (p.h.), Broken Cross Farm 1831 Bry , cf. the Cross (e ) feild 1650LRMB , ( 18 ) Surv , from a wayside cross formerly standing at the intersection of King Street and Penny's Lane infra . It appears to have been broken in the seventeenth century , cf. Broken Cross 1118 . Crump 96 associates it with a salt - way from Northwich to Macclesfield , v. 146 , 49 .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Witton Lodge
- Brownhayes Fm
- Whatcroft Lane
- Ashbrook Fm
- Cross Lanes
- Crowder's Lane
- Drakelow Gorse Fm
- Drakelow Lane
- Fourlane Ends
- Gadbrook Fm
- Higginslane Fm
- High Ho
- King's Lane
- King Street
- Kingstreet Fm & Kingstreet Hall
- Lane End Fm
- Marshall's Gorse
- Melvin Ho
- Middlewich Rd
- Ninehouses
- Penny's Lane
- Puddinglake Brook
- Shipbrook Rd
- Cooke's Lane