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Leapra Cross: a wayside cross at the entrance to Moor Gate Farm
Devon
Leapra Cross is a wayside cross of likely medieval origin, positioned at a meeting of ways on the threshold between settled land and open moorland. Such crosses served practical purposes for travellers and communities, marking routes, boundaries, and places of gathering or worship across Dartmoor and its margins.
Today the cross stands at the entrance to Moor Gate Farm, a quiet reminder of centuries of movement across this landscape. Its presence here reflects the long history of paths and trackways that have threaded through Dartmoor, connecting the scattered settlements and farmsteads that have depended on the moor for grazing and livelihood.
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