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The Judge's Chair

Hexworthy, Ashburton, Devon

Grid ref: SX 6460 7457

Part of Hexworthy →

The Judge's Chair sits on the raw granite landscape of central Dartmoor, a natural rock formation that Bronze Age people deliberately modified and used. Whether it served as a meeting place, a ceremonial site, or something tied to the landscape's spiritual geography remains open to interpretation, part of its appeal.

Finding it requires navigation across open moor, rewarding those who seek it with solitude and the same vast views that would have confronted its ancient users. The site speaks to how Dartmoor's people shaped their environment in subtle ways, leaving marks that survive thousands of years in this unforgiving terrain.

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