York Cross Also Known As Jack Cross is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1989. Waymarker.

York Cross Also Known As Jack Cross

WRENN ID
white-grate-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North York Moors National Park
Constituency
Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 July 1989
Type
Waymarker
Address
York Cross Also Known As Jack Cross, Sneaton, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
NZ 878 015
Coordinates
54.40163, -0.64812
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

York Cross, also known as Jack Cross, is a medieval waymarker cross located on Sneaton Whinstone Ridge. It features a sandstone socket with a gritstone shaft. The hollow square socket stone supports a broken cross shaft that stands approximately 1 metre high and is inscribed with the word "JACK" above a form of a Maltese cross. The socket also bears the initials OSBM. This cross served as a waymarker on the medieval Abbey road that connected Whitby to Pickering, passing through Falling Foss and Ellerbeck.

Local climate

York Cross Also Known As Jack Cross receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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