The Maythorne Cross

Into Holmfirth this morning with MrM - we didn't fancy getting soaked yet again so for once we didn't walk, but went in the van. After buying a few other essentials we searched for paper for the printer. Went into a couple of shops that seemed likely to stock it, without success. Eventually a kind shopkeeper directed us to the Co-op, and there it was on the shelf - in one of the last places we would have thought to look! Before heading home we popped into Beatties for the first time in ages, for tea and cake, and very nice it was too.

We passed the Maythorne Cross on the corner of the park. Apparently it was mentioned in some 15th-century documents, and is thought to have been either a boundary marker or the marker of a junction on one of the old salt roads between Cheshire and Yorkshire. This replica of the cross was erected in 2005 by the Holme Valley Civic Society, and is in turn the replica of the cross as it appeared after restoration in the 19th century.