Showing listings tagged “Wayside Cross” Show all listings
Victorian topographer and antiquary (1847-1928), the single most prolific chronicler of Dartmoor, author of the classic Guide to Dartmoor and a dozen other books on the moor.
Crossing's survey of the granite waymarking crosses scattered across Dartmoor, expanded in 1902 from his original 1887 two-volume study into what he called "in great measure a new book."
A granite cross marking the burial of a young nobleman who died on Fox Tor Mires, with competing versions of how he got there.
A medieval wayside cross standing on the open moor south east of Cross Gate, a scheduled monument of local pilgrimage or boundary significance.
A medieval wayside cross standing on Wigford Down, near Cadover Bridge, marking an old route across the moor.
A weathered granite wayside cross standing on open moorland north of Sampford Spiney, likely medieval in origin.
A wayside cross site and 18th century waymarker on the open moor southeast of Beetor, marking an old route across Dartmoor.
A granite wayside cross standing on the open moor north of Warren House Inn, likely medieval in origin.
A medieval wayside cross standing on the north side of a minor road northwest of Howton Farm.
