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Ted Hughes Memorial Stone
Okehampton, Devon
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Main image: Upper Taw valley - 1 metres from location - image by Derek Harper (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Ted Hughes's will reportedly asked for this stone to be placed here, and friends of the poet are said to have followed cryptic clues from him to find the site. You can walk out to it along the Ted Hughes Poetry Trail.
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Plate from A Book of Dartmoor, page 37, 1900“This little feeder takes its rise at the foot of Cut Hill, issuing out of a black, swampy, almost uncanny looking place; a hollow filled with bog from which the stream oozes in a slow, lifeless sort of way.”
Also on Our DartmoorGate Piers, Front of Chapel of St Lawrence — Grade II* listed gate piers and boundary wall fronting a small chapel, likely medieval in origin.
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