Milestone, SX 505 783

This stone milestone stands at a junction on the open moor, one of many that once guided travellers across Dartmoor's high ground. These simple markers were set into the landscape to record distances to towns and settlements beyond the moor, serving drovers, packmen, and later coaches and carts. The milestone reflects the importance of the routes crossing Dartmoor in earlier centuries, when the moor itself was busy with traffic.

Today it remains in place, a modest but telling reminder of the old road network that still shapes movement across the moor. Walkers and locals pass it frequently on the paths nearby. It sits within the wider pattern of historic markers and boundaries that are scattered across Dartmoor's landscape.

Historic England listed designation: Milestone at SX 505 783