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| civil parish:- |
Culgaith (formerly Cumberland) |
| locality:- |
Cross Fell |
| county:- |
Cumbria |
| locality type:- |
altar |
| locality type:- |
pile of stones |
| 1Km square:- |
NY6834 (?) |
| 10Km square:- |
NY63 |
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hearsay:-
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Paulinus, a priest from Rome who came to help Augustine as a missionary, 601, came
to Northumberland in 627. Whilst in the north, Paulinus is said to have erected an
altar and a cross on the summit of Fiend's Fell, and renamed it Cross Fell.
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hearsay:-
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"... St. Austin, as is said, erected a Cross and built an Altar upon it [Cross fell],
whereon he offered the Holy Eucharist, by which he countercharm'd those Hellish Fiend,
and broke their Haunts."
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"... and to this day there is a heap of stones which goes by the name of the Altar
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Robinson, T: 1790: Essay Towards a Natural History of Westmorland and Cumberland:
(London)
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