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Church Ruins to near Church of Holy Trinity

Grid ref: SX 7428 6656

On walking routes: Abbot's Way

Main image: Buckfastleigh, Holy Trinity Churchyard - 13 metres from location - image by Lewis Clarke (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

  • Period: Medieval
  • Status: Listed building (Historic England list entry 1209046)
  • Grid reference: SX 7428 6656 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)

The full official description is in the Historic England record linked above.

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Dartmoor Illustrated, page 70Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 70, 1900

“When below are mud and mist, aloft on the moor the ground is hard with frost and the air crisp and clear.”

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“I once heard a woman tell one of her daughters, in a Dartmoor cottage, " to log the child's cradle." There, thought I, is a British word ; log means to rock, hence logging, or logan stone.”

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Anna Eliza Bray. From A Description of the Part of Devonshire Bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy, vol. 1 (1836).

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