Books
- Leaves from Sherwood, etc.; original poems. Plymouth, 1868
- The Ancient Crosses of Dartmoor; with a Description of their Surroundings; Exeter, 1884. (An expansion of a series of articles which originally appeared in the Western Antiquary)
- Amid Devonia's Alps; or, Wanderings and Adventures on Dartmoor. Plymouth, 1888
- Tales of the Dartmoor Pixies: Glimpses of Elfin Haunts and Antics. 1890
- The Land of Stream and Tor; Plymouth, 1891. (For private circulation)
- Crockern Tor and the Ancient Stannary Parliament. Exeter, 1892
- Old Stone Crosses of the Dartmoor Borders. Exeter and London, 1892
- The Chronicles of Crazy Well. Plymouth, 1893
- The Ocean Trail. Plymouth, 1894
- Widey Court. Plymouth, 1895
- A Hundred Years on Dartmoor. Plymouth 1901
- The Western Gate of Dartmoor: Tavistock and its Surroundings. London, 1903
- Gems in a Granite Setting. Plymouth, 1905
- From a Dartmoor Cot. London, 1906
- Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor. Plymouth, 1909. (Republished 1990, Peninsula Press, Newton Abbot, ISBN 1-872640-16-8)
- Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor, the 1912 edition reprinted with new introd. by Brian Le Messurier. Dawlish: David & Charles, 1965 (The third edition was published at Exeter in 1914 and was still in print until about 1940)
- Folk Rhymes of Devon. London, 1911
- Cranmere: The Legendary Story of Binjie Gear and other Poems. London, 1926
- Posthumous works
- The Dartmoor Worker. Newton Abbot, 1966 (From a series of articles written for the Western Morning News in 1903 but published in book form after his death)
- Dartmoor's Early Historic and Medieval Remains. Brixham: Quay, 1987. (A collection of articles originally published in West Country newspapers during 1905)
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| Name | Crossing, William |
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| Date of birth | 1847 |
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| Date of death | 1928 |
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