Lilla Cross

The cross is located is on a hilltop known as Lilla's Howe, 959 ft above sea level. This is a burial mound beside an old track known as Old Wife's Trod. Several paths met at Lilla Howe as the cross became a waymarker, especially for those trying to get overland from Whitby and Robin Hood's Bay to Pickering, (the path of the A169 road not being built until 1759). The Old Salt Road, and the Pannierman's Way both intersected at the cross, and the cross marked the meeting point of four ancient parishes, and the edge of ownership of Whitby Abbey. Currently, the Lyke Wake Walk goes past the site of the cross, but the amount of walkers undermines the peat, destabilising the cross, and both the…