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Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross is a nursery rhyme connected with the English town Banbury. The stone cross of the title was destroyed by anti-Catholic Puritans in 1602 who were opposed to the notion of pilgrimages, but it was replaced in 1858. The nursery rhyme was first seen in print in 1784, however it was probably known well before then.