Osmotherley Village Green is an open space in the centre of Osmotherley, North Yorkshire, a village in England.
The settlement is centred on its small, triangular, village green, where its three main roads meet. [1] [2] On the green stand a cross and a stone table. A local tradition claims that the cross was associated with a 19th-century market, but no record of a market charter exists. [2] The stone table was probably used as an individual market stall, but has also been described as a stone on which a coffin would have been rested. In the early 1750s, John Wesley preached in the village, and it is said that he did so while standing on the table. [3] Both the cross and table are grade II listed. [4] [5]
The village cross is in stone, and consists of three Mediaeval square steps surmounted by a plain 18th-century obelisk. [4] The 16th-century table is also in stone, about 1.5 feet (0.46 m) in height, and consists of a slab on five tapered supports. [5]