Wreyland, Bovey Tracey
A stone direction post at a crossroads on the open moor, guiding travellers across Dartmoor's high ground.
Lower Bowdley, Ashburton
A modest stone marker standing northwest of Cold East Crossroads, marking an old boundary line across Dartmoor.
“Do you tweat? I tweat. I don't like it and I reckon us won't do any more work." ... "Be you like the piskies yet?”
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Lustleigh, Bovey Tracey
A wayside cross stone built into a garden wall near Caseley, likely medieval in origin.
Lustleigh, Moretonhampstead
A wayside cross standing near South Harton Farm, marking an ancient route across the moor.
Cranbrook, Moretonhampstead
A modest stone marker standing beside an old moorland route, marking the way for travellers crossing Dartmoor.
Lettaford, Chagford
A stone marker recording a boundary line across the Dartmoor moorland, likely dating from the medieval period or later.
South Tawton, Okehampton
A medieval wayside cross on the open moor, likely marking a route or boundary in the Oxenham valley.
Lee Moor, Plympton
A weathered boundary stone standing on the open moor north west of Blackaton Cross, marking medieval or early modern land divisions.
Green Lane, Bovey Tracey
A granite milestone and surviving section of the Haytor granite tramway, a 19th-century industrial route across the moor.
Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 160, 1900“It is indeed a scene of desolate loneliness, the spot being the wildest in the east quarter of the forest.”
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