The marketplace in Banbury might still have been called "Banbury Cross" even after the cross was knocked down: force of habit. So the song needn't derive from when the cross still stood.
Are not ankle-bells (as sometimes worn by morris-dancers) somtimes spoken of as being "on the toes" ?
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