More information : [SD 9713 3826] Hanging Stone or Water Sheddles Cross (1)
Waterschedles Cross. -"The cross is...near the high road,
which runs in an easterly direction from Colne, through
Wycoller....Near it is the forked stream.....forming one of the
feeders of the river Aire...... the remains consist of a
rough block of stone, leaning at an angle of about forty-five
degrees against a projecting rock. The top end has been shaped
into the form of an octagon, on the face of which a raised
cross is to be seen. The stone is about six feet long and two
feet wide, tapering to eleven inches square at the upper end,
and appears to once have stood upright. Some local authorities have
cut on it the words 'Hanging Stone or Waterscheddles Cross'." (2)
A boundary stone inscribed with a cross and the words
"Hanging Stone or Water Sheddles Cross." (3)
Trawden Hanging Stone or Water Scheddles Cross.
Scheduled Ancient Monument. (4)
See G.P. AO/60/168/5 (5)
SD 9712 3827. Hanging Stone or Watersheddles Cross. Scheduled RSM
No 23747. A medieval standing cross consisting of a rough block of
millstone grit 1.82m long of rectangular cross-section 0.6m by 0.4m.
'Waterschedles crosse' is mentioned in a document dated 1327-77,
whenit functioned as one of the boundary stones marking the division
between the dioceses of York and Lichfield. (6)
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