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Ringhill Cross
Crosses

Ringhill Cross

South Tawton, Chagford

A Latin wayside cross 1.9 m high with oval gate-hanging notches and an incised cross on each face, moved to its present place when the A30 was improved in November 1988, near Scarhill Cross.

Milestone, SX 529 752
Milestones & Boundary Markers

Milestone, SX 529 752

Moortown, Tavistock

A roadside milestone marking distance on the old routes crossing Dartmoor's high moorland.

Milestone, SX 525795
Milestones & Boundary Markers

Milestone, SX 525795

Cudlipptown, Tavistock

A roadside milestone marking distance on the moor, likely from the 18th or 19th century.

Dartmoor quiz
A photograph of a place on Dartmoor; the question asks which
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

Which Dartmoor stone circle is this?

Fernworthy Stone Circle. A Bronze Age stone circle within the Forest at Fernworthy.

Worth a visit
Milestone, SX 508 813
Milestones & Boundary Markers

Milestone, SX 508 813

Kingsett, Tavistock

A 19th-century stone milestone marking distance on the moorland roads around Dartmoor.

Sanduck Cross
Crosses

Sanduck Cross

Barnecourt, Moretonhampstead

A wayside cross standing beside a minor road near Sanduck Farm on the northern moor.

Crosses

Lower Elsford cross

Wreyland, Moretonhampstead

The arms and head of a massive, crudely worked cross, 0.6 m high and 0.8 m across the arms, built into a hedge opposite the entrance to Lower Elsford Farm.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“When the zun in the East wuz beginning to rise, Jan Pook, half awake, Valled to rubbing his eyes. " Who be I ? Where be I ? " Zed Jan in a maze : " Here's a drunken old zun- Of-a-gun on a shays. If I be Jan Pook, I may zay to my cost A pair of post osses I've sartinly lost. If I baint Jan Pook 'Tez ...”

Also on Our DartmoorCross at north corner of crossroads about near Dockwell Farmhouse — A wayside cross marking the north corner of a crossroads deep in Dartmoor's moorland landscape.