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Bennett’s Cross is a fabulous example of a Dartmoor granite cross, standing at the wayside just off the B3212 Turnpike Road between Two Bridges and Moretonhampstead. The cross is one of the most accessible on the moor as just a few metres away is its very own car park.

The cross is thought to date to at least 1702, but could well be (and probably is) much older than that. We learn from the Dartmoor Crosses website that the cross served at least three purposes in its long history:

• As a boundary stone for the civil parishes of North Bovey and Chagford.
• As a boundary stone for the Headland Warren rabbit warren encircling Birch Tor (incised on one face of the cross is ‘WB’ denoting Warren Bounds).
• As a boundary stone showing the limit of the Vitifer Mine complex.

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