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Croyland Bridge.

them, "Turketyls or Thurcytels Cross," is placed at the junction of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire. In this, as in all the others, the cross is missing. The shaft is of obelisk form, on a shapely base, and has been restored. Parts of other crosses are "Guthlac's Stone," near the Assendyke, four miles from Croyland; "Finestone," or "Fynset," "Greynes," "Folwardstaking," and "Kenulph's Stone." One of the boundaries mentioned as early as the charter of Edred, 943, is "The Triangular Bridge." The present is an extremely curious thirteenth- or fourteenth-century structure, doubtless replacing an earlier one. Like the triangular lodge near Rothwell, in Northamptonshire, it was probably intended to be emblematic of the Trinity. It has three pointed arches, with a way for a stream to flow under each, and three roadways over the arches, but the arches are too low, and the roadways too narrow for vehicles and too steep for any convenient traffic. Hence it may have been the basement of a large cross approached by three flights of steps, where now we have the steep inclines.