Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CROSS (St.)

CROSS (St.), a place in Carisbrooke parish, Isle of Wight; 1 mile N of Carisbrooke. A Cistertian priory, a cell to Tiron abbey in France, was founded here before 1155; and given, at the dissolution of alien priories, to Winchester college.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a place"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Carisbrooke AP/CP       Hampshire AncC
Place names: CROSS ST     |     ST CROSS

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