Fitz's Well and Cross

• Grid reference: SX 5919 9378 (Historic England)
• Parish: Okehampton Hamlets
• Cross: Short Greek cross, about 84 cm tall, roughly hewn granite
• Listing: Grade II listed building 1326304 (7 September 1987); cross scheduled, list entry 1007021
• Surname spellings: Fytz, Fitz, Fice, Fize (Crossing)
• Other local name: Spicer's Well
• Not to be confused with: Fice's Well near Princetown (listing 3624)

Fitz's Well is a spring on Okehampton Park, on the moor above Okehampton. A short, roughly cut granite cross stands beside it, about 84 cm tall, and the well itself is covered by granite slabs. Historic England lists the well and cross together, and the cross is also a scheduled monument.

The story is that a couple crossing the moor at night were led in circles by pixies in a thick mist. They found a spring, drank, and the spell broke; Okehampton lay below them. The grateful man is said to have set up the cross. Tradition also says the cross was moved here from the lost chapel of St Michael at Halstock, which the Legendary Dartmoor author doubts. Young people from Okehampton were once said to gather at the cross on Easter morning.

The name comes from John Fitz, who held Okehampton Park. William Crossing recorded the surname as Fytz, Fitz, Fice and Fize, and locals also called the well Spicer's Well. That is why it is muddled with Fice's Well near Princetown, which tells the same pixie story but has a lintel dated 1568 and a convict-built wall. They are two separate places.

This is a location on Dartmoor that has a namesake. Read more about this: Dartmoor Places With the Same Name