A 1.63 m medieval cross shaft set in a socket stone beside Walkhampton Church House, brought together in a 1984 restoration and given a new head in the 1990s.
“There was nobody to see him; all the brown moor was void with loneliness and lassitude; not a shadow, except his own, moved faster than the sun directed it.”
Who wrote this?
A short-armed medieval cross, 1.44 m high, at the junction of the B3212 and the B3344, moved here in 1899 after serving as a gatepost; HE notes it may be a Christianised standing stone.
A wayside cross, 1.7 m high, on the western slopes of Ter Hill, thought to mark where the Abbots' Way and the Sandy Way met.
A medieval cross head 0.5 m high on a modern shaft set up in 1952, 120 m north of the old track between the Buckfast and Tavistock abbeys, above Newleycombe Lake.
A 14th-century type cross head on a modern 1.8 m octagonal shaft, restored in 1914, 20 m south of the old track between Buckfast and Tavistock abbeys.
A medieval cross head 0.6 m high on a 1.3 m modern shaft in its original square socket stone, 40 m south of the old track between Buckfast and Tavistock abbeys.
A Latin wayside cross 1.52 m high embedded in an earthfast rock and leaning 15 degrees, its shaft mended with iron bars, on Down Ridge above Holne Moor, known as Skir Cross.
A Latin wayside cross 1.06 m high, concreted into a cleft in a granite rock and broken in two and held with iron bars, on Down Ridge above Holne Moor, locally Horse Ford Cross.
A 2 m stumpy-armed cross, leaning south-west, on open ground above a minor road with wide views, with a rounded head and the letters IA cut on one face; moved in 1867.
Hawthorn on Kings Tor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“'T is an ancient rite, auld as cider—maybe auld as Scripture, tu, for anything I've heard to the contrary," said Mr. Lezzard. ... "Ay, so 't is," declared Billy Blee, "an' a custom to little observed nowadays. But us might have better blooth in springtime an' braaver apples come autumn if the trees ...”
Also on Our DartmoorHut circle near Leather Tor — A large hut circle 10.7 m across inside, with a wall 1.5 m wide and 0.7 m high, attached to a field boundary on the east slope of Leather Tor.
