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Abundance of crosses -- The menhir -- Crosses marked the limits of / a Llan -- Crosses marked places for public prayer -- Instance of / a Cornish Dissenter -- Churches anciently few and far / between -- The cross erected where was no church -- Which / therefore precedes the village church -- Crosses as / waymarks -- The Abbot's Way -- Interlaced work -- The plait a / subject for study.
There is no county in England where crosses abound as they do in Cornwall. Second to it comes Devonshire. Indeed, on Dartmoor and in the west of the latter county they are as numerous as in Cornwall.