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Huccaby
Huccaby is a hamlet in Dartmoor Forest civil parish, Devon, on the north bank of the West Dart River opposite Hexworthy. The farmstead dates to at least the late 13th century and is recorded in 1296 as Woghebye, later Hogheby (1417) and Hoockaby (1573). The name is thought to come from Old English words for crooked and bend, which fits the big loop of the West Dart here. The Lydford tithe map shows four main buildings at the farm.
Huccaby House was built in 1875 as a fishing lodge for the Reverend Edward Harris. Robert Burnard, the Dartmoor antiquarian, author and photographer who founded the Dartmoor Preservation Association in 1883, lived there from 1904. His daughter Olive Munday and granddaughter Sylvia Sayer are remembered in St Raphael's Chapel, which was put up in 1868 as a mission chapel.
Hexworthy (or Huccaby) Bridge carries the road over the West Dart. It is Grade II listed (1987), built in granite in the late 18th century with three segmental arches, the middle one wider than the others. No census population for the hamlet has turned up.
Huccaby on the map
In Huccaby
Hut circle settlement W of Combestone Tor
Hexworthy, Ashburton
Bronze Age dwelling circles scattered across open moorland, their stone foundations still visible after thousands of years.
Outer Huccaby Ring
Hexworthy, Ashburton
A Bronze Age hillfort on open moorland, its concentric rings still visible after thousands of years of wind and weather.
The Judge's Chair
Hexworthy, Ashburton
A Bronze Age rock outcrop on Dartmoor's open moorland, shaped by ancient hands into a ceremonial or gathering place.
