Skip to content

← Browse Crosses · Browse the directory

Crosses

Crazywell Cross

Grid ref: SX 5837 7039

Main image: Photo: Alan Rosevear, Wikimedia Commons

Historic England record Get directions

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1008649) describes a wayside cross on a gentle south-facing slope overlooking Newleycombe Lake, 120 metres north of a long-established track between Buckfast and Tavistock abbeys. What survives is the head of an expanded Latin cross, 0.5 metres high and 0.6 metres wide, mounted on a modern shaft 0.8 metres high that was put up in 1952, in a socket made of moorstones and concrete. It lies in the parish of Walkhampton, about 0.8 km south of Cramber Tor and 3.2 km south of Princetown.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1008649, which cites Crossing, The Ancient Stone Crosses of Dartmoor (1987 edition), page 87, Starkey, Dartmoor Crosses and Some Ancient Tracks (1989), pages 42 to 43, the National Archaeological Record (SX57SE24) and the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register (SX57SE124).

  • Period: Medieval
  • Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1008649)
  • Grid reference: SX 5837 7039 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
Share

Contact us if you have information about this listing

See what’s nearby on the main map

Official record

Historic England, official listing

Explore the area

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks, sites near hereThe Megalithic Portal, nearest recorded site

Go deeper with Dartefacts

Dartefacts is a database of Dartmoor sites with far more close-up detail than we can show here, and it is the best place to go deeper. Dartefacts is free to use, and nobody has to pay to look things up. If you want more, a yearly subscription adds 10-figure grid references, map zoom down to 1:25,000 and lists to tick off the places you have visited, and it helps keep the site going. We would encourage you to subscribe.

More Dartmoor resources

DartefactsLegendary DartmoorDartmoor Explorations

Thoughts

Be the first to share a thought about Crazywell Cross.

Share a thought

You might also like

Addiscott Cross Chagford Bennett's Cross Bishop's Stone Set In The Garden Wall Of Caseley Bungalow near The Road To Caseley Bovey Tracey Blackaton Cross Browney Cross socket stone (Shaugh Prior) Burham Farm socket stone (possible base of Yennadon Cross)
Crossing wallabrookCrossing wallabrook. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“And desolate as Dartmoor is, with thousands of acres now destitute even of a turf-cutter's cabin, considerable vestiges of antient dwellings may still be traced in various parts of the Forest and its precincts.”

Also on Our DartmoorCrock of Gold (Cairn and Cist) — Bronze Age cairn and cist hidden among Dartmoor's open moorland, its name hinting at centuries of folklore and mystery.

Know another Dartmoor place, tor or landmark we should include? Suggest a listing, it is free.

Suggest a listing