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Old books sometimes spell "Yellam" differently. Which of these is one of those spellings?

Yealm. It appears in 17 of the old books and papers in our research library, so the name has not always been written the way we write it now.

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Hut circle, Down Ridge
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle, Down Ridge

A hut circle 4.8 m across inside with a single upright-stone wall 1.1 m wide and 0.7 m high and an east-facing gap, on Down Ridge above the Dart.

Three hut circles, Manga Rock
Prehistoric Settlements

Three hut circles, Manga Rock

Three hut circles, 8.5 to 19.6 square metres inside, with walls up to 0.7 m high and boundary walls, on an east slope above the North Teign, south-east of Manga Rock.

A Hundred Years on Dartmoor, page 105Plate from A Hundred Years on Dartmoor, page 105, 1901

“The Gubbings land is a Scythia within England, and they be pure heathens therein... Their wealth consists in other men's goods, and they live by stealing the sheep on the More...”

Thomas Fuller (Worthies of England, 1662), quoted by Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Dartmoor, 1907

Also on Our DartmoorEnclosure with one hut circle near Cross Gate — An irregular enclosure 47 m by 35 m divided into three, with one hut circle 5 m across whose doorway faces south-west, on a south slope above Burrator Reservoir.