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Bledlow Cross

Bledlow, Buckinghamshire

A mysterious chalk cross, sister to Whiteleaf.

Bledlow Cross is a Greek-style cross cut into the Chiltern chalk, about 23 metres across. Like its neighbour at Whiteleaf, nobody knows when or why it was made, though it is first recorded in the 1800s.

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When
Unknown
Where
51.7000, -0.8700
Group
Hill figures & giants

Visiting

Reached on foot along the Ridgeway near Wain Hill.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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