Memorials - Howick - Wayside Cross
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Corner Liverpool Road and Howick Cross Lane PR1 0NR Ordnance Survey Grid Reference - SD 50812 27565 IWM War Memorials Register - Not on site War Memorials Online - Not on site A simple wayside cross that had for many centuries been reduced to its base which is a huge block of rough-hewn stone. In 1919 it was restored by the inhabitants of the township as a war memorial.
HOWICK CROSS
RESTORED BY THE INHABITANTS TO COMMEMORATE PEACE 1919 |
Images © Charles O'Donnell 2018 except illustration from Penwortham in the past by Alan Crosby (Carnegie Press, 1988)
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