English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

High Cross

Early-attested site in the Parish of Wibtoft

Etymology

High Cross at the crossing of Watling Street and Fosse Way is so named in 1656 (Dugdale) and is on the site of the Romanofiritish station of Venonis as recorded in the Antonine Itinerary.“Upon the very thwarting of those two great ways, hath antiently stood some eminent cross , which the country people called High -Cross ” (Dugdale 48).

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement