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Shoreham Memorial Cross
51.3366° N, 0.1732° E
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The Shoreham Memorial Cross is a Christian cross hill figure carved into a chalk escarpment above the village of Shoreham, Kent. The concept of the cross was the idea of a Shoreham man, Samuel Cheeseman, two of whose sons had been killed on active duty during the First World War. It was carved between May and September 1920 on land donated by Francis Mildmay who had also served in the war. In October 2021 Historic England designated the cross a scheduled monument.
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First turf cut
24 May 1920
War years on memorial inscription
1914–1919
Cross completed
September 1920
Village war memorial erected
1921
View restored by felling
2010
Scheduled monument designation
October 2021
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