Cross vs Heck

Cross

name
  • A hamlet in St Dominick parish, east Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX4067) 

  • A hamlet in Goodleigh parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS6034). 

  • An unincorporated community in Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States. 

  • A town in Buffalo County, Wisconsin, United States. 

  • A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a stone cross on a road. 

  • An unincorporated community in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. 

  • A hamlet in Georgeham parish, North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS4539). 

  • A hamlet north of Ellesmere, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3936). 

  • A village in Compton Bishop parish, Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4154). 

  • A settlement on the Isle of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NB5062). 

  • A village and townland in County Clare, Ireland, Irish spelling An Chrois. 

  • A village in County Mayo, Ireland, Irish spelling An Chrois. 

Heck

name
  • A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY0980). 

  • A surname, possibly from German. 

  • A civil parish of Selby district, North Yorkshire, England, with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck. 

  • A hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s. 

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