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Headland Warren boundary stone, Warren Bounds
Grid ref: SX 6952 8162
On walking routes: Two Moors Way
Main image: Photo: Herbythyme, Wikimedia Commons
Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1021343) describes a warren boundary stone set into a bank beside the public road on a gentle south-facing slope above the valley of the West Webburn River. It is a granite pillar 0.37 metres high, 0.56 metres wide and 0.2 metres thick, with Warren Bounds cut on its north face. It is part of a group of at least 16 stones that mark the edges of Headland Warren, which covers about 246 hectares and has at least 37 pillow mounds, five vermin traps, six rectangular enclosures and the warren house, and was in use by 1754 until about 1920. It lies in the parish of North Bovey, about 0.5 km north-west of Hookney Tor and 2.2 km north of Challacombe.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1021343, which cites Brewer, A Field Guide to the Boundary Markers on and around Dartmoor (1986), pages 55 to 56.
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1021343)
- Grid reference: SX 6952 8162 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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