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Fice's Well and stone cross, East Hill

Belstone, Okehampton, Devon

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On walking routes: West Devon Way

Main image: Old Wayside Cross by Camp Road, Okehampton Hamlets parish - 4 metres from location - image by Alan Rosevear (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1007021) describes a stone holy well with a cross beside it, on the top of a north-facing ridge that forms part of East Hill, overlooking the valley of the West Okement. The well house has rubble walls topped with granite slabs to make the roof, and a concrete raft has been put in to hold the slabs steady. The well inside is thought to be up to 1.2 metres deep. It is still used as the water supply for a nearby house. It lies in the parish of Okehampton Hamlets, about 2 km north-west of Scarey Tor and 1.5 km south of Okehampton.

West of the well stands a plain cross cut from a single piece of granite, with one arm partly missing. It is 0.8 metres high and 0.5 metres across the arms, has a cross cut into one face, and is set in a rough stone platform. It is said to have been brought here from St Michael's Chapel in Halstock when that was destroyed in the Reformation. The well and the cross are both listed Grade II.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1007021 (updated 19 October 2015), which cites PastScape 449849 and 440852.

  • Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1007021)
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