Huntingdon Cross (Huntingdon Warren)

• Grid reference: About SX 6644 6620 (the Gazetteer for Britain); the catalogue position is about 600 m too far north
• Height: About 4.5 ft, 1 ft 10 in across the arms (Crossing, 1902)
• Inscription: None
• Also called: Huntingdon Cross, Shepherd's Cross

The cross stands a little out of upright in a hollow at Lower Huntingdon Corner, a few yards from the River Avon where it meets the Western Wella Brook, on the edge of Huntingdon Warren. William Crossing measured it in 1902 at close on 4.5 feet high and 1 ft 10 in across the arms, with no sign of any inscription. Starkey's measurements agree, and a dry stone wall beside it is recent.

The Brent Moor bounds inquisition was held at South Brent on 25 August 1557, and the commissioners were to set up crosses at four points. Crossing counted this as the fourth, and thought it may first have marked the Abbots' Way and been taken over later as a boundary stone, though Worth and Hemery regard the Abbots' Way name as unsound. Crossing adds that Brent's claim to this corner was an encroachment on duchy land, as the Forest boundary runs from the Wellabrook and Avon meeting to Eastern Whitaburrow. Eden Phillpotts calls it Shepherd's Cross in Orphan Dinah, and Kenneth Day says that was a real local name.

It is on open moor with no road, reached on foot beside the Avon, about three miles from Shipley Bridge.

Sources: William Crossing, Ancient Stone Crosses of Dartmoor (1902) | Dartmoor Explorations, Brent Moor bounds and the crosses of 1557 | Gazetteer for Britain, Huntingdon Cross | Historic England 1002536, the enclosure and hut circles nearby | Dartmoor Crosses, the same cross with photographs.