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This wayside cross sits in the moorland landscape southeast of Crazy Well Pool, a scheduled monument that speaks to the medieval religious and social life of Dartmoor. Such crosses once marked routes across the moor, guiding travellers and serving as focal points for worship and community gathering. Erosion and weathering are part of the story of any moorland monument.
Today it stands as a modest but tangible link to centuries of use of these high, open lands. The surrounding moorscape, though altered since medieval times, remains recognisably the same kind of terrain that early travellers knew. Walking to it offers a sense of the routes and journeys that shaped Dartmoor's human history.
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