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Hobajon's Cross

Grid ref: SX 6552 6048

On walking routes: Two Moors Way

Main image: Old Boundary Marker or Wayside Cross between Piles Hill and Ugborough - 20 metres from location - image by A Rosevear (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

Hobajon's Cross is a granite cross on the open moor between Harford and Ugborough, on the south side of Dartmoor. It is probably a reused blocking stone from a prehistoric stone row, with a cross cut into it later.

It became a parish boundary marker between Harford and Ugborough in a dispute of 1782-84. In the 19th century it was numbered as boundstone No. 10 in the South Brent and Ugborough boundary markers.

It is not one of the four crosses put up in 1557 for the Brent Moor bounds, which were set out for the Manor of Brent under Sir William Petre. Of those four, Huntingdon Cross and Petre's Cross survive.

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