A socket stone, now at Tothby Manor near Alford, is thought to have once been on Mile Cross hill nearby. It is called the Plague Stone.
Alford
Crowland – St Guthlac’s Cross
Guthlac’s stone has been researched and illustrated by many historians – it is illustrated in Camden’s Britannia (1695) and in Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum (1724). There is much speculation as to the origin and meaning of the inscription, which appears to have been recut (possibly by the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society) in the 18th century. Camden recorded the inscription as: AIO/HANC/PETRAM/GVTHLACVS/HABET SI-/BI METAM
Crowland – St Vincent’s Cross
Here is a cross of no fixed abode . . . and with an identity problem! What we presently know as St Vincent’s Cross has also been called Kenulph’s Cross and Turketel’s Cross. It is situated just outside the Lincolnshire country boundary (now Peterborough District). The cross stood in a tiny, fenced enclosure in an arable field until 1991, when it was moved to a small, grassed area by the roadside some 250m to the north.
Crowland – Kenulph’s Cross
Kennulph’s Stone was one of the several boundary stones marking the lands of Crowland Abbey. The HER states: After a succession of lawsuits about the possessions of Crowland Abbey in the marshes, and the appointing, in 1389, of a commission to enquire into the marking of boundaries, new stone crosses were erected at Kenulfston and elsewhere. In 1394 men of Deeping destroyed the cross and were imprisoned in Lincoln Castle, where they remained till their friends set up another cross at Kenulfston.
Scredington
The cross on Mareham Lane has been variously described as a Roman milestone, a pilgrim cross and a wayside cross but is almost certainly a boundary cross . . . The earliest reference to the cross is in White’s 1856 Directory which states:’ In a field where there was formerly a lake or mere, is a Roman mile-stone, now called mere-stone.’
Sutton St James (2)
There are the remains of a standing cross about 1.4km south west of St Ives Cross at the crossroads of Broadgate and Old Fen Dike. It was drawn by J C Nattes c.1795 and commented on by Marratt
Tydd St Mary (2) White Cross
There is the buried socket stone of a boundary cross (known as the White Cross or Sutton Cross) on a roadside verge (which is the parish boundary) 80m north of Poultry Farm on Draw Dike between Sutton St James and Tydd St Mary.
Tydd St Mary (3) Manor Hill Cross
There is a boundary cross set on a grass verge on the north east side of the road junction at the southern end of the Master Dike, a drainage channel which runs along the parish boundary between Tydd St Mary and Sutton St James. The cross comprises a sockets stone and part of the shaft.