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This wayside cross is a modest but enduring feature of Dartmoor's medieval landscape. Such crosses once marked routes across the moor, served as meeting points, and sometimes indicated parish or estate boundaries. The stone structure has weathered centuries of exposure on open moorland.
Today the cross stands as it has for generations, a quiet landmark in the rolling terrain south east of Cross Gate. It is part of a wider network of similar monuments scattered across Dartmoor and Devon, each a small record of the people and paths that shaped the landscape.
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