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Cross Hill ,Thingwall
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18th Apr 2014 9:55am
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Not sure if this has been done before but just wondering why Cross Hill, Thingwall, is so called.. Could there be a burial ground under the hump ? The name would indicate something to do with Christianity.
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Re: Cross Hill ,Thingwall
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Re: Cross Hill ,Thingwall
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Don't know about a burial ground, Granny, but somewhere on this site is a picture of the vast reservoir under the hill before it was filled with water.
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Re: Cross Hill ,Thingwall
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Thanks for all your input everyone. I can't find the info you mention Chris. The idea that the names Red Hill (or Blood Hill as Prof. Harding thinks it was called) and Rest Hill Road, both in Storeton, have their link to the Vikings is interesting. That gave the idea to the possibility that they may have had some sort of structure as a centre point of the 'Assembly Field' mainly as they turned towards Christianity after they arrived here in Britain. Maybe the idea of Cross Hill being a burial mound, is a bit far fetched but the name would have to lend itself to something and there aren't any cross roads there.  Ha ha Chris... found it. Bottom of the page https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums...wall_Poll_Hill_Reservoir.html#Post472576
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Re: Cross Hill ,Thingwall
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Thanks, Granny; well done. I looked but couldn't find it.
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Re: Cross Hill ,Thingwall
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As an update to the enquiry of where the name Cross Hill,came from. Here are the words of the 'man' himself.(Harding)
quote ' Cross Hill could certainly have derived from Old Norse kross.'
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Re: Cross Hill ,Thingwall
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Maybe the religious trek does not fall into everyone's wishes, but the evidence that they were Christians is pretty widespread. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=v...a_1D4qwPK_5gegL&ved=0CCIQsAQ#imgrc=_Crosses were placed on hills. With the intriguing thoughts of Erainn on the stones at Arrowe Park, which is only a mile down the road from Thingwall, maybe there could be a connection. Maybe they had camps as they moved about the area a lot, and considering the Assembly Field was on Cross Hill, we know they were fairly local. Also.... according to the following article : http://viking.no/e/life/echristianity.htmThe Norwegians had met the "Cross-men" when they landed in England and Ireland. A lot of Scandinavians settled in Britain and you can still find gravestones in England with both the Thor's hammer and a cross .
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Re: Cross Hill ,Thingwall
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The cross symbol appears many times in History long before Christianity was dreamt up. On the Tithe maps there are three distinct plots of land in the vicinity called Cross Hill. the majority of the land so named is on the reservoir side of the road, there is also a plot called Cross Hay in the middle of them.
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Re: Cross Hill ,Thingwall
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This question is not due to any beliefs on my part, Casper, it is purely as trying to find the possibility that Cross Hill was a name given to the meeting place due to a certain significance adopted at the time and if the name could be dated back to the Viking period. You say that Christianity was introduced to their homelands in 11th/12th centuries, after 995 ad, it was only a matter of 5 years to the 11th century. Crosses from that time in their homelands also had carvings of Jesus on them, and at the moment I am unable to find those to show you. So it could be connected to religion or as DD says it could be pre- Christian roots. Never the less, could there have been a cross on the hill to give the name Cross Hill? (or then Kross) I have been trying to find the earliest date for the name of Cross Hill, but so far have been unable to come up with anything previous to 1800's. as atw1960 pointed out.
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Re: Cross Hill ,Thingwall
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Gosforth was Anglo Saxon. The Jelling Stones are the ones I think. Some about it on Wikipedia. King Harald died about 985 AD. Nice picture of stone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelling_stones
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