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Pound Rock
Grid ref: SX 7396 8415
On walking routes: Moretonhampstead North Bovey Circular
Main image: Photo: Derek Harper, Wikimedia Commons
Pound Rock sits at the entrance to North Bovey from the north on a green triangle. It is a large, flat slab of granite, reaching little more than a metre in height on its west side. The name comes from its historical use as a place to impound stray animals. A finger post marks the spot, and it is accessible to the public.
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Plate from A Book of Dartmoor, page 260, 1900“There was nobody to see him; all the brown moor was void with loneliness and lassitude; not a shadow, except his own, moved faster than the sun directed it.”
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