Little John's Cross (Exeter): Difference between revisions

Locality
Coordinate	50.711379, -3.556813
Adm. div.	Devon
Vicinity	Corner of Dunsford Road and Little John's Cross Hill, Exeter.
Type	Monument
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1675

Latest revision as of 00:50, 6 January 2021

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Little John's Cross

Little John's Cross stands in the garden behind the traffic sign at the right side of the road / Google Earth Street View (click photo to enlarge).

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-10-18. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Little John's Cross is a wayside cross in Exeter at the corner of Dunsford Road and Little John's Cross Hill. The cross, now standing in a private garden, takes its name after a local family surnamed Littlejohn and is thus in its origin hardly related to the Robin Hood tradition.^[1] However, the spelling "Little John" obviously bears witness to, as well as encourages, reinterpretation along such lines, and thus we find an early 1990's private residence on Little John's Cross Hill named Sherwood Rise.^[2] The cross is marked without a legend on Ogilby's 1675 map.^[3]

Gazetteers

Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Sources

Flickr: Little John's Cross, Exeter, Wayside Cross (by Alan Rosevear).

Background

Zoopla: Property history of Sherwood Rise, Little Johns Cross Hill, Exeter EX2 9PJ, 12th Sep 2012.

Also see

Notes

↑ See Flickr: Little John's Cross, Exeter, Wayside Cross (by Alan Rosevear).
↑ Zoopla: Property history of Sherwood Rise, Little Johns Cross Hill, Exeter EX2 9PJ, 12th Sep 2012.
↑ Alan Rosevear, as cited.

Devon place-names

Place-names

[1] See Flickr: Little John's Cross, Exeter, Wayside Cross (by Alan Rosevear).

[2] Zoopla: Property history of Sherwood Rise, Little Johns Cross Hill, Exeter EX2 9PJ, 12th Sep 2012.

[3] Alan Rosevear, as cited.

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 Little John's Cross is a wayside cross in Exeter at the corner of Dunsford Road and [[Little John's Cross Hill (Exeter)|Little John's Cross Hill]]. The cross, now standing in a private garden, takes its name after a local family surnamed Littlejohn and is thus in its origin hardly related to the Robin Hood tradition.<ref>See [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tollhouses/3281064901/ Flickr: Little John's Cross, Exeter, Wayside Cross] (by Alan Rosevear).</ref> However, the spelling "Little John" obviously bears witness to, as well as encourages, reinterpretation along such lines, and thus we find an early 1990's private residence on [[Little John's Cross Hill (Exeter)|Little John's Cross Hill]] named Sherwood Rise.<ref>[http://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/sherwood-rise/little-johns-cross-hill/exeter/ex2-9pj/18596093 Zoopla: Property history of Sherwood Rise, Little Johns Cross Hill, Exeter EX2 9PJ, 12th Sep 2012.]</ref> The cross is marked without a legend on Ogilby's 1675 map.<ref>Alan Rosevear, as cited.</ref>
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 * [http://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/sherwood-rise/little-johns-cross-hill/exeter/ex2-9pj/18596093 Zoopla: Property history of Sherwood Rise, Little Johns Cross Hill, Exeter EX2 9PJ, 12th Sep 2012.]
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