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The Lich Way, or way of the dead, is the medieval corpse road along which people living deep in the moor were once obliged to carry their dead for burial at Lydford, the mother parish. It runs across the northern moor and is as much a walk into Dartmoor's history as across its landscape.
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- About 19.6 km
- Starts near Lydford, Devon
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Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 198, 1900“Nor can imagination body forth a place more congenial to the sights and sounds of dark and blood-stained rites, than this dreary, narrow, rock-strewn glen of the Dart.”
Also on Our DartmoorHut circle near Roos Tor — A Bronze Age hut circle standing on the open moor east of Roos Tor, among Dartmoor's scattered evidence of prehistoric settlement.
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