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Grid ref: SX 5856 9329
On walking routes: West Devon Way
Main image: Photo: Rod Allday, Wikimedia Commons
Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1002630) describes a deserted medieval settlement on the upper north-western slopes of East Hill, overlooking the valley of the West Okement River. It is a group of at least eight longhouses with their hollow ways, gardens, pounds and boundary banks. All the surviving longhouses have the usual opposed entrances in their long walls, and at least three have cross walls. Five are grouped south of a hollow way, and a further one sits in a small enclosure with a second enclosure attached. It lies in the parish of Okehampton Hamlets, about 2.3 km north of West Mill Tor and 1.9 km south of Okehampton.
Walls and banks survive to at least 0.5 metres high, and several of the pounds are rounded. Other remains nearby are outside this scheduling.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1002630 (updated 13 November 2015), which cites PastScape 1388147.
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