Monument record 850 - The Longstone, part of a cross shaft on Longstone Lane/Shay's Lane

<1> English Heritage, Various, Old/Original Schedule Entry (Scheduled Ancient Monuments Description), 25696 (Scheduling Record). SCH4606.

Cross shaft fragment set on a modern sandstone base on a concrete plinth. Situated on the S side of the road known as Longstone Lane (Suggesting that the stone is in its original possition). The shaft is of red sandstone and is 0.32m wide and 0.3m in depth. It stands 0.49m high from the base. The site of the cross is on the medieval road and later coach road which led to Vale Royal Abbey. Other crosses in this area point to a set of waymarkers skirting Abbots Moss and taking the medieval traveller to the abbey. Listed Grade II

<1> English Heritage, Various, Schedule Entry (Scheduled Ancient Monuments Amendment), 25696 (Scheduling Record). SCH2950.

<2> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, SJ56NE14 (Report). SCH1934.

Formerly listed as Longstone in Little Budworth Civil Parish. Medieval stone shaft. Square base supporting shaft c.1ft 6ins, damaged at top. Red sandstone, 1ft square at base and 1ft 6ins high. May possibly fit into the cross socket stone of RN:-849

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card (Index). SCH2487.

<4> Bryant, A., 1831, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2114.

'Log Stone'

<5> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, Thacker A 1987 (Book). SCH3556.

See RN:-2142 Pillar destroyed by Puritan iconoclasts in early C17