{"id":799,"date":"2013-03-08T14:02:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T14:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=799"},"modified":"2013-03-08T14:02:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T14:02:59","slug":"trubshaw-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2013\/03\/08\/trubshaw-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Trubshaw Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting new article<\/a> from historian Fred Hughes, on Trubshaw Cross, between Dalehall and Longport [Longbridge] in Stoke-on-Trent…<\/p>\n

“Trubshaw Cross is one of Stoke on Trent\u2019s major gateways. It\u2019s where Percy Adams gave us a glimpse of an ancient world where the packhorse was once king of the road.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now the area’s modern bits are mostly demolished. <\/p>\n

But in 1624 the Cross was described as the terminus of the Moorlands and Peak packhorse routes headed across the Fowlea for the London Road… <\/p>\n

“a great passage out of the north parts unto diverse market towns”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The turn-piking of roads in 1763 likely put paid to the cost-effectiveness of the onward route to Newcastle-under-Lyme, and then canal haulage effectively came to Burslem around 1805 with a new wharf just a stone’s throw from the Cross.<\/p>\n

Trubshaw Cross is a place which is featured in the first chapter of my novel The Spyders of Burslem<\/em>. Fred interestingly notes an antiquarian dating of the cross base…<\/p>\n

“[Percy] Adams identified the stone base as being of Saxon origin” […] “the historian John Ward Ward notes in 1843 that only the stone base remained”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fred seems to imply there’s a threat that the cross’s traffic island might be removed. In which case, if it is Anglo-Saxon (as seems likely from the ancient age of the site and the old documentation), then it might be interesting to first do a proper deep archaeological dig on the site of the whole island. Perhaps nearby Steelite might sponsor that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting new article from historian Fred Hughes, on Trubshaw Cross, between Dalehall and Longport [Longbridge] in Stoke-on-Trent… “Trubshaw Cross is one of Stoke on Trent\u2019s major gateways. It\u2019s where Percy Adams gave us a glimpse of an ancient world where the packhorse was once king of the road.” Now the area’s modern bits are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}