Dunstone Cross

Dunstone Cross is a wayside cross of medieval origin, one of many that once guided travellers across the high moor. These crosses served practical purposes, marking established routes and boundaries across featureless terrain where paths were easily lost. The name suggests a stone or stones associated with the site, a common pattern in Dartmoor's place names.

Today the cross stands as a quiet marker of the moor's long history of movement and trade. Its modest form and exposed location are typical of such crosses, which weathered centuries of moorland conditions. Visiting it offers a sense of the routes that shaped settlement and commerce on Dartmoor, and the landscape remains largely as it would have appeared to medieval travellers.