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This is a pool on the East Okement River a little way downstream of Cullever Steps, about 160 m from the stepping stones, and wild swimmers use it. It is remote, below Belstone Tor and close to the Okehampton firing range, so check the firing times before you go. The water is cold moorland water and its depth changes with the rain.
Visitor guides call it Cullever Steps Pool, and people often shorten that to Cullever Steps. The Steps themselves are the stepping stones and fords upstream, and the Bronze Age ring cairn lies on the far side of them, about 380 m from the pool. Nothing we have found records how the pool came to be. If you know, please tell us.
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