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.

Weeping Cross

Other OS name in the Parish of Baswich or Berkswich

Etymology

, 1668 ParReg , 1775 Yates , 1836 O ; according to tradition a wooden cross for penitentiary purposes stood here in the reign of Edward VI , v. VCH v, 2 .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site