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One week in summer 2017 I found myself playing concertina at the Minack Theatre, and on one of the days when there wasn't a matinée performance,
idly looking across the Ordnance map, I noticed a ❧ Cross ☙ marked nearby in their antique font. And then another in the nearest churchyard, and a third. In fact now I'd noticed these I realized there were dozens of them all across the map, by roads or field edges, or in churchyards. So the next sunny day I decided I should string togeher the ones I'd spotted on the map into a day walk. (Somehow, even though I'd limited myself to three parishes and searched fairly diligently, I managed to miss at least four.)
Later, I found a book from 1856, ❧ "Old Cornish Crosses" ☙ , by Arthur G. Langdon, which classifies them into types and includes a number of engravings.
Langdon's "Old Cornish Crosses" in the Internet Archive
By Roskestal, toward Arden-Sawah
Between Trevilley and Trevescan
More cross locations and links (Google Sheet)
Langdon's "Old Cornish Crosses" in the Internet Archive
More cross locations and links (Google Sheet)
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