Top Cross, Main Street, Linby, 1901

Image ID: 43036

Top Cross, Main Street, Linby, 1901

Courtesy of Nottingham and Notts Photographic Society

Main Street
Linby
Nottinghamshire
England

Linby has two crosses, an Upper and a Lower Cross, and they both appear to have been boundary crosses used in demarking the confines of the Forest of Sherwood.<br /><br />The upper cross (shown here) at the west end of the village is the older, its original shaft having been destroyed about 1564, and the modern restoration set up in 1869. Its seven-sided steps are unique in this neighbourhood, and may have some mystic meaning.<br /><br />The lower cross, with its square steps, dates from about 1660, the time of King Charles II.

Date: 26/09/2001

Organisation Reference: NCCV000098

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