Simon’s Cross, Simonstone, Near Padiham, Lancashire

The Journal of Antiquities

Simon’s Cross near Simonstone, Lancashire.

OS grid reference: SD 7760 3609.Upon White Hilland just beside ShadyWalksat thenorth-side of Simonstone, near Padiham, Lanca-shire, is a large boulder with a deep socket hole.This is, in fact, the cross-base of a Medieval wayside cross which was known locally as ‘Simon’s Cross’, ‘Simon’s Stone’or sometimes ‘Wart Well’. Very little is known aboutits history and who it was named for, or who actually erected the cross. The...