Presented: July 1960 by the people of Bovey Tracey
Moved: 1971, from Denbury Camp near Newton Abbot
The plaque on the cross says it was presented in July 1960 to the Junior Leaders Regiment Royal Signals by the people of Bovey Tracey, to mark the help the regiment gave at the celebrations of the town's 700th charter anniversary. The regiment had played a leading part in organising the first Ten Tors expeditions, and when it left Denbury Camp it left the cross to the Ten Tors expedition. It was moved to Okehampton Camp in 1971.
Dartmoor CAM describes it as unique on Dartmoor for its Maltese cross shape and its concrete. It is not a medieval cross and is not in Crossing, whose book is older. The cross is inside the boundary of Okehampton Camp, which is Ministry of Defence land, and can be seen from the public path through the camp towards Yes Tor. Check for firing before you go.
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“It is not an easy place. Walking in from Okehampton direction, for the first hour it's military roads; for the second hour, degraded moor grass and peat cuttings; and for the third hour, the most Molinia-infested, tussock-barren wasteland I have ever experienced on the moor.”
Also on Our DartmoorDown Ridge — A flat, boggy hill with views north and west towards Princetown and Yar Tor.
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