Cross Tree - Moretonhampstead

"On the East side of the town stands the church, with a row of picturesque seventeenth-century almshouses beyond it. Close to the gate was the Cross tree, - immortalized as the Dancing Tree by Mr. Blackmore in Christowell , - which supported a platform whereon in bygone years visitors to Moreton and others used to foot it. I regret to say that the old tree, so familiar a feature of Moretonhampstead was blown down and entirely destroyed in the great gale of September 10th, 1903.

The head of the Market Cross still remains on the base, just as it stood at the foot of the old tree, now very inadequately represented by a youthful copper beech."

Cresswell 1921

Map - Moretonhampstead