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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.

Bishopton Cross

Other OS name in the Parish of Ripon

Historical Forms

  • crucem in via regia 1452 RipAct

Etymology

, crucem in via regia 1452 RipAct , v. cros ; it is now destroyed ( cf. RipAct 10 note ) ; it was possibly one of the eight crosses surrounding the sanctuary district of Ripon ( cf. Athelstan's Cross supra ) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site