What is Lady's Cross and why is it there? Some say that it marked the southern boundary of the Beauchief Abbey estate which was founded in the twelfth century by French monks. The remains of their abbey can still be found in Sheffield's southern suburbs. It operated for four hundred years until the middle of the reign of King Henry VIII.
The first known written reference to Lady's Cross occurred in a land deed from 1263 but it is probably much older than that and may have had different iterations through time. There is a significant amount of dressed stone in the area that surrounds the cross today. Its presence there hints at earlier structures. Also the cross we see today is no doubt much shorter than it would have been eight hundred years ago.
I rambled onward for a further half mile and from the western edge of White Edge Moor, I looked towards The Hope Valley. Before backtracking to Lady's Cross, I captured this image:-
The gloomy bulk of The Kinder Plateau broods in the background but closer to my viewpoint, I could easily make out Lose Hill to the left and Win Hill to the right.
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