Reaps Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1984. Wayside cross.

Reaps Cross

WRENN ID
twisted-tower-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 December 1984
Type
Wayside cross
Address
Reaps Cross, Heptonstall Moor
OS grid reference
SD 943 302
Coordinates
53.76874, -2.08708
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Reaps Cross is a wayside cross that may date back to the medieval period. It consists of a large, rough-dressed boulder with a sunken square hole that holds a roughly dressed monolithic cross shaft. The shaft is rectangular in shape and tapers slightly towards the top, featuring stop-chamfered corners. The larger section of the shaft lies flat at its base and has chamfers for the arms of the cross, which are now broken off. A large metal pin is embedded in the shaft from a previous repair. The cross is situated in a stunning, isolated location on wild moorland, overlooking Gorple Lower Reservoir. It was likely used as a waymarker on the route from Blackshaw Head to Widdop and then to Colne.

Local climate

Reaps Cross sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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