Croston

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Reference WMO/172552

Address:

Corner of Highfield Road & Grape Lane

Croston

PR5

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Wheel cross
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Wheel cross standing in a small fenced area by the juntion of Grape Lane and Highfield Road. Memorial commemorates the dead of WW1 and WW2. Listed Grade II, list entry number 1458957.
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In / imperishable / memory / of the men / of Croston / who made the / supreme / sacrifice / in the / Great War / 'Their name / liveth / for evermore' // Greater love hath no man / than this that a man lay down / his life for his friends:

(WW1 names) Henry Almond, Richard Alty, Harry Bannister, John Blackstone, William Blackstone, John Bolton, Robert Bullen, Peter Cave, Harry Cload, James Cottam, Thomas Cottam, Thomas Coulton / Reginald de Trafford, Albert Dickinson, Daniel Dickinson, Richard Eastham, William Eastham, George H. Farrington, Robert Glover, James W. Hough, James Iddon, Robert Iddon, Jonathan Johnson, Henry Lea / James Mayor, Robert Miller, Harold Rawlinson, Robert Rigby, John T. Spencer, Thurstan W. Smith, William Smith, Harry B. Trafford, Henry H. Trafford, William Walsh, Thomas Watkinson, Leo Whittle / (WW2 names) Thomas G. Atkinson, William Catterall, James Caunce, Thomas Corner, John Duckworth, Robert Iddon / William Marsden, Eric Norris, James M. Seddon, R. Edgar Snaylam, Richard Sumner, Sydney Webster

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Grade II (England)

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1458957

1458957

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