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A popular Victorian collection tracing the origins of famous medieval legends, from the Wandering Jew and Prester John to William Tell and the Man in the Moon.
Lydford
The Lich Way is Dartmoor's old 'way of the dead', the corpse road along which moorland families once carried their dead to burial at Lydford.
Buckfastleigh
The Abbot's Way is a historic route across the high southern moor, traditionally linked to the medieval abbeys of Buckfast, Buckland and Tavistock.
Moretonhampstead
Grade I listed medieval parish church in Moretonhampstead centre, notable for its early fifteenth-century tower and traditional Devon wagon roof.
A moorland spirit said to preside over Crockern Tor, summoned by tinners and cited in medieval law.
A remote, grassy-topped tor of 495 m on the Cosdon to Hangingstone ridge in north Dartmoor, not the Hound Tor at Manaton.
Scheduled Monument with three pillow mounds and a military training pit.
Three boundary stones marking the limits of a medieval warren on the open moor south of Headland Warren Farm.
Three earthen mounds on Merrivale Warren, remnants of medieval rabbit warren management on the open moor.
