Anglo-Saxon paganism in the seventeenth century by immigrants arriving from Flanders. The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, which is performed annually in the village of Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire, has also been claimed, by some, to be a remnant of Anglo-Saxon paganism. The antlers used in the dance belonged to reindeer and have been carbon dated to the eleventh century, and it is therefore believed that they originated in Norway and were brought to England some time in the late Mediaeval period, as by that time reindeer were extinct in Britain. Little is known about the cosmological beliefs of Anglo-Saxon paganism. Carver, Sanmark,
Bromley Cross Bromley Cross Bromley Cross is a suburb of the unparished area of South Turton in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It gives its name to the larger Bromley Cross electoral ward, which includes Eagley, Egerton, and Cox Green. Historically a part of Lancashire, Bromley Cross lies on the southern edge of the West Pennine Moors. Bromley Cross railway station is on the Ribble Valley Line. Bromley Cross got its name from an ancient cross, which has long since gone, originally named Kershaw's Cross after a tenant farmer who lived in the neighbourhood whose landlords, Bromley or Bromiley,