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Lustleigh War Memorial
Lustleigh, Bovey Tracey
A quiet memorial to Lustleigh's fallen, standing among the high moorland where community memory endures.
Crosses
Celtic Cross
A stone cross standing alone on the open moor, marking centuries of Dartmoor's spiritual and human history.
Attractions & Visitor Sites
May Day Rock
Lustleigh, Bovey Tracey
A weathered stone monument marking a significant point on the open Dartmoor landscape, rich with local history and mystery.
Other Heritage Sites
The Judge's Chair
Hexworthy, Ashburton
A massive granite seat inside the gate of Dunnabridge Pound, called the Judge's Chair, with the argument over whether it ever came from Crockern Tor.
Crosses
Goldsmith's Cross
Goldsmith's Cross: a repaired Latin cross, 0.9 m high, set in a boulder beside Foxtor Mires and re-erected in 1903.
Historic Buildings
The Sheepfold
Postbridge, Chagford
Stone foundations of a moorland sheepfold, where Dartmoor's shepherds once gathered their flocks among the granite and heather.
Other Heritage Sites
Mesolithic Complex (Flooded)
Coombe Cross, Bovey Tracey
Submerged traces of hunter-gatherers on Dartmoor, where Mesolithic people once lived before water claimed the landscape.
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Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 104, 1900“Therefore the little river divides and leaps and tumbles foaming over the mossy granite, or creeps beneath the boulders by invisible ways.”
Also on Our DartmoorBovey Heath (Civil War battlefield, 1646) — Heathland between Bovey Tracey and Heathfield where Cromwell broke a Royalist cavalry force in January 1646. Now a Devon Wildlife Trust nature reserve.
