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On walking routes: The Lichway
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Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1020878) describes a pillow mound in Longaford Newtake, on a south-facing slope above the West Dart River. It is a flat-topped oblong of soil and stone 9.5 metres long, 5 metres wide and 0.9 metres high, with a ditch 2.5 metres wide and 0.6 metres deep on three sides, where the material was dug. It is an outlying part of a warren on the west slopes of Longaford and Littaford Tors with at least 32 pillow mounds and a warreners' house. A warren is known to have been set up here in 1895 by James Saltroun of Powder Mills and was given up before 1914, though some mounds may belong to an earlier warren. It lies in the parish of Dartmoor Forest, about 0.7 km south of Crow Tor and 3 km north of Two Bridges.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1020878, which cites the Cherrybrook and Longaford survey plan at 1:10,000 (1989).
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