Founded as a dependency of Marrick in 1171 by Ralph de Multon. Rerecross served a hospice for travelers taking the old roman road from Yorkshire to Westmorland.
Ralph de Multon
In 1540 the hospital was valued at £2 13s. 4d. yearly.
In the Pipe Roll of 18 Henry II there is an account stating that 5 seams of bread-corn were given to sick persons by Ralph de Glanville, Chief Justice of England. Another man, Nicholas Kirkby, donated £3 a year to celebrate in the chapel of St. Edmund.
In the seventeenth century the hospital became an Inn, which was later replaced by a new structure sometime in the eighteenth century. Strangely, this later structure became associated with an interesting legend in which roving marauders used the "hand of glory," to rob the Inn.
The Victoria History of the County of York2:321-30 available online at ">http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=36300&strquery=Rerec... [Victoria County History]
Because the site was near the borders of three separate counties it appears in the records or all three: York, Durham and Westmorland. However, it was technically within York. It was supposedly named after Rey Cross, a Norman Stone Cross that was meant to mark the boundary between England and Scotland. After the dissolution of the monastery at Marrick, Rerecross was granted in 1545-6 to John Uvedale.
