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Whiteleaf Cross

Near Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire

A giant chalk cross whose origin nobody knows.

A huge cross on a triangular base is cut into the chalk above Princes Risborough. It is first mentioned in the 1700s, but its true age is unknown.

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When
Recorded 1700s
Where
51.7250, -0.8100
Group
Hill figures & giants

Visiting

Whiteleaf Hill nature reserve has a car park and paths to the top of the cross.

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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