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Acknowledgement: This sacred pool was mentioned by Tom Greeves in Dartmoor Magazine, Issue 137, Winter 2019 with a grid reference.
Houndtor Down Cist
NW, 330°, 0.187 km
Houndtor Down Ring Setting Cairn
NW, 330°, 0.187 km
390 m Contour Ring, Houndtor Down
S, 182°, 0.201 km
Houndtor Down Boundary Stone
SE, 134°, 0.258 km
Hound Tor Down Outcrop
SE, 127°, 0.310 km
No. 0855,
400 m Contour Ring, Hound Tor (Manaton), No.01
N, 9°, 0.325 km
K17 Hound Tor, near Widecombe
N, 8°, 0.345 km
Hound Tor (Manaton) Rock Basin
N, 15°, 0.354 km
410 m Contour Ring, Hound Tor (Manaton)
N, 9°, 0.359 km
Hedge Barton 1849 Mystery Inscription
NW, 300°, 0.362 km
B.M. 1216.9, NE facing
NW, 300°, 0.362 km
The X Stack
N, 3°, 0.366 km
B.M. on Gatepost, WS of RD, NF, East Lodge, 1962
NW, 300°, 0.371 km
400 m Contour Ring, Hound Tor (Manaton), No.02
N, 8°, 0.399 km
X Marks the Rock
N, 10°, 0.401 km
400 m Contour Ring, Hound Tor (Manaton), No.03
N, 13°, 0.409 km
390 m Contour Ring, Hound Tor (Manaton)
N, 2°, 0.410 km
Holwell Lawn Pair of Slotted Gateposts
SE, 119°, 0.432 km
Gate between Holwell Lawn and Hound Tor
SE, 120°, 0.445 km
370 m Contour Ring, Greator Rocks, West
E, 90°, 0.497 km
Stile between Holwell Lawn and Greator Rocks
SE, 119°, 0.553 km
Greator Rocks
E, 88°, 0.561 km
‘The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022’
S, 166°, 0.562 km
Holwell Lawn Rock
S, 166°, 0.565 km
Greator Rocks Cave
E, 88°, 0.577 km
B.M. 1188.5, SW facing
NW, 302°, 0.600 km
360 m Contour Ring, Greator Rocks, East
E, 88°, 0.602 km
Swallerton Gate (354 m)
NW, 333°, 0.613 km
B.M. 1236.1, NE facing
NW, 295°, 0.620 km
Swallerton Gate Cross, embedded in cottage garden wall (355 m)
NW, 332°, 0.623 km
B.M. 1176.0, NE facing, on Cottage Wall near corner (Not Located)
NW, 332°, 0.626 km
Swallerton Gate Trough (352 m)
NW, 333°, 0.628 km
Swallerton Gate (Hound Tor) Car Park
N, 339°, 0.662 km
B.M. 1137.5, S facing, N side of road, obvious rock (345 m)
N, 2°, 0.671 km
B.M. 1191.1, SW facing (Not Located)
S, 202°, 0.676 km
410 m Contour Ring, Hedge Down
SW, 244°, 0.679 km
Holwell Brook Gate
S, 202°, 0.688 km
410 m Contour Ring, Hedge Tor
W, 264°, 0.692 km
No. 0828,
Lower Greator Rocks Gate
E, 79°, 0.719 km
Holwell Spring
S, 190°, 0.719 km
Snodderbottom Mire
S, 184°, 0.719 km
Hedge Tor Rock Shelter
W, 274°, 0.723 km
340 m Contour Ring, Lower Greator Rocks
E, 80°, 0.726 km
Yonder Piphole Tor
NE, 34°, 0.727 km
BI 1688 Rock
SW, 205°, 0.731 km
Rock Basin, Lower Greator Rocks
E, 80°, 0.733 km
Hedge Tor
W, 275°, 0.737 km
Lower Greator Rocks
E, 79°, 0.741 km
Hedge Tor Cave
W, 278°, 0.749 km
Hawthorn Rock
S, 179°, 0.758 km
Slotted Gatepost, North of Swallerton Gate
N, 338°, 0.775 km
Culliver Stack
N, 17°, 0.779 km
Inscribed Boulder ‘Free Trade in Corn 1848’
NW, 306°, 0.784 km
B.M. 1281.8, SWF
W, 272°, 0.826 km
NBM Wall Junc, SW of RD, NEF, 1962
NW, 329°, 0.841 km
Plat Tor
N, 21°, 0.859 km
Long Pool Boundary Stone
SE, 123°, 0.873 km
Gratnor Rocks
N, 11°, 0.888 km
Hedge Down Spring
W, 258°, 0.901 km
Ruined Building near Holwell
S, 162°, 0.913 km
Fish Ponds
E, 102°, 0.928 km
Long Pool (Becka Brook)
E, 102°, 0.928 km
Holwell Bridge over the Becka Brook
SE, 142°, 0.948 km
Holwell Bridge B.S, Boundary Stone (New!)
SE, 142°, 0.949 km
Holwell Rocks
S, 197°, 0.951 km
No. 0856,
Ford below Hedge Tor
W, 275°, 0.958 km
B.M. 1261.5, W facing (Not Located)
SW, 205°, 0.969 km
Slotted Gateposts near Greator Farm
E, 79°, 1.016 km
B.M. 1289.8, SWF
W, 262°, 1.019 km
Leighon Wood
E, 79°, 1.027 km
Becka Brook Clapper Bridge
E, 81°, 1.039 km
Natsworthy Manor Stone inscribed DS 1854
W, 257°, 1.042 km
Horse Shoe Stone (? possibly the No.12 Stone?)
E, 88°, 1.058 km
390 m Contour Ring, Holwell Rocks
S, 198°, 1.060 km
390 m Contour Ring, Bonehill Down
SW, 215°, 1.062 km
Holwell Bridge Boulders
SE, 157°, 1.063 km
Becka Brook Tor
E, 75°, 1.065 km
Possible Tethering Ring??
SE, 138°, 1.066 km
B.M. 1338.1, SWF
W, 259°, 1.082 km
Saddle Clove Rock or The Clove Stone
W, 256°, 1.094 km
Ivy Tor (Manaton)
NE, 52°, 1.103 km
B.M. 1042.2, NEF
SE, 140°, 1.114 km
Swallerton Common
NW, 334°, 1.117 km
Holwell Brook
SW, 225°, 1.125 km
Beltor Bog or Beltor Mires
SW, 225°, 1.125 km
No. 0829,
No. 0854,
Holwell Bungalow B&B
S, 179°, 1.142 km
Holwell Down Gate
SW, 204°, 1.144 km
Hedge Tor Access Gate
W, 272°, 1.147 km
Bonehill Down Pool
SW, 224°, 1.161 km
B.M. 1097.0, SWF (Not Located)
SE, 138°, 1.167 km
B.M. 1393.5, SWF
W, 257°, 1.168 km
Bonehill Down Sacred Pool
SW, 229°, 1.203 km
B.M. 1133.8, NF, below Holwell Tor (Not Located)
SE, 137°, 1.205 km
The Dartmoor Plain Boundstone
E, 88°, 1.229 km
M I Leighon Bound Stone
E, 86°, 1.256 km
Goodlay’s Plantation
W, 289°, 1.259 km
Holwell Quarry
SE, 133°, 1.261 km
Holwell Mine
S, 161°, 1.265 km
NBM Boulder, NWF, below Holwell Quarry
SE, 127°, 1.277 km
Cold Moor Tor
S, 168°, 1.296 km
No. 0827,
Cold Moor Tor Rock Shelter
S, 167°, 1.309 km
No. 0880,
B.M. 1376.5, SWF, N of Bell Tor
SW, 241°, 1.328 km
B.M. 1319.2, SE facing, Bell Tor (Not Located)
SW, 236°, 1.334 km
Bell Tor NE Rock Basin
SW, 238°, 1.336 km
Holwell Tor Ruined Building
SE, 131°, 1.342 km
NBM Bldg Ruin, NEF, E Ang
SE, 131°, 1.349 km
Bell Tor Summit Rock Basin
SW, 237°, 1.353 km
Bell Tor Wedged Boulder
SW, 237°, 1.356 km
B.M. Wall Ang, E side of RD, WF
SW, 203°, 1.358 km
420 m Contour Ring, Bell Tor
SW, 238°, 1.359 km
Stone Trough, broken in two near Smallacombe Rocks.
E, 111°, 1.368 km
Stone Trough below Holwell Quarry
SE, 123°, 1.368 km
Bell Tor
SW, 237°, 1.369 km
B.M. 1261.5, SE facing, below Bell Tor (Not Located)
SW, 231°, 1.370 km
Holwell Tor
SE, 136°, 1.398 km
Southcott Rocks
N, 15°, 1.414 km
Leighon Bridge
NE, 58°, 1.417 km
Smallacombe Rocks (385 m)
E, 102°, 1.418 km
Holwell Tor Fallen Rock Basin
SE, 137°, 1.418 km
DOCH or HOOT inscribed on Smallacombe Rocks
E, 102°, 1.419 km
Smallacombe Rocks Rock Basin (1)
E, 103°, 1.423 km
Leighon Pair of Slotted Gateposts
NE, 64°, 1.431 km
Moyle’s Gate
N, 347°, 1.436 km
B.M. on Gatepost, Moyle’s Gate
N, 347°, 1.437 km
Cancelled Benchmark?
SE, 129°, 1.439 km
The Duke Stone
S, 167°, 1.444 km
Hole Stone Millstone
E, 94°, 1.447 km
Leighon Stile No.2
NE, 55°, 1.449 km
The Hole Stone (No.10 in series)
E, 94°, 1.453 km
Unnamed Boundstone, Cut in 1835
S, 165°, 1.460 km
Bonehill Rocks Middle Car Park
SW, 219°, 1.473 km
390 m Contour Ring, Holwell Tor
SE, 138°, 1.473 km
Smallacombe Feather Beds
SE, 120°, 1.476 km
Hole Rock, Haytor Down
E, 94°, 1.482 km
Little Emsworthy
SE, 155°, 1.482 km
B.M. 1190.0, SF on Tramway (Not Located)
SE, 128°, 1.485 km
Little Holwell Tor
SE, 143°, 1.491 km
Leighon Stile No.1
NE, 52°, 1.494 km
Bonehill Down Dried Up Pool
SW, 205°, 1.495 km
Emsworthy Mire Footbridge (3)
S, 170°, 1.499 km
Smallacombe Rocks Hut Circle (1)
E, 102°, 1.499 km
Smallacombe Rocks Hut Circle (2)
E, 104°, 1.501 km
380 m Contour Ring, Cripdon Down/Swine Down
NW, 331°, 1.511 km
Granite Slab Bridge near Long Heales Tor
NE, 50°, 1.511 km
Stile near Long Heales Tor
NE, 50°, 1.513 km
B.M. 1227.6, NE facing, Bonehill Rocks (Not Located)
SW, 218°, 1.516 km
Little Bonehill Bridge
SW, 217°, 1.519 km
Feather and Tare Stone, below Holwell Tor
SE, 127°, 1.522 km
Bonehill Rocks
SW, 223°, 1.522 km
Emsworthy Mire Footbridge (2)
S, 180°, 1.538 km
Bonehill Rocks West Car Park
SW, 227°, 1.539 km
B.M. on GTP, SE side of Track, Leighon
E, 70°, 1.542 km
390 m Contour Ring, Bonehill Rocks
SW, 223°, 1.546 km
Bonehill Rocks East Car Park
SW, 217°, 1.548 km
Long Heales Tor
NE, 47°, 1.563 km
Holwell Tor Apple Crusher (369 m)
SE, 123°, 1.583 km
No. 0881,
NBM Rivet Rock, N Ang RDs, W side of RD
SW, 203°, 1.593 km
Lower Nap Tor
NE, 39°, 1.600 km
J16 Jay’s Grave (372 m)
NW, 324°, 1.621 km
B.M. 1244.4, E facing (Not Located)
S, 202°, 1.624 km
Heatree Common Lane Gate
NW, 324°, 1.624 km
B.M. on Rock, WS of RD, EF, Jay’s Grave, 1962
NW, 324°, 1.626 km
Pool near Little Holwell Tor
SE, 137°, 1.637 km
Two Stone Posts
S, 162°, 1.640 km
Leighon Tor (377 m)
E, 87°, 1.649 km
Little Holwell Tor Longhouse
SE, 144°, 1.667 km
Bonehill Middle
SW, 213°, 1.678 km
Unidentified Ruined Hut
SE, 125°, 1.687 km
B.M. 1248.1, NF or Cancelled Benchmark on Tramway?
SE, 120°, 1.687 km
Haytor JP Stone
SE, 134°, 1.691 km
No. 0879,
380 m Contour Ring, Emsworthy Rocks (1)
SE, 155°, 1.716 km
Lower Leighon Tor
E, 74°, 1.716 km
Three Piece Rock (393 m)
E, 89°, 1.721 km
Lower Leighon Tor Pyramid Rock
E, 74°, 1.721 km
Little Dried Up Pool
SE, 147°, 1.733 km
Hole Rock Apple Crusher Quadrant
E, 93°, 1.742 km
The Emsworthy Hawthorn Tree
SE, 156°, 1.747 km
Tyring Rock
NE, 38°, 1.748 km
Gate to Long Heales Tor
NE, 38°, 1.757 km
Hoorra Burrow
SE, 155°, 1.764 km
K18 Haytor Granite Tramway
SE, 153°, 1.790 km
Feather and Tare on Lower Leighon Tor
E, 75°, 1.794 km
Emsworthy Feather and Tare Stones
SE, 150°, 1.820 km
Pool near Haytor Quarry
SE, 114°, 1.867 km
The Rubble Heap
SE, 133°, 1.900 km
Cut Granite Blocks, near Haytor Quarry
SE, 120°, 1.908 km
380 m Contour Ring, North of Haytor Quarry
SE, 114°, 1.941 km
Beckaford Bridge
NE, 46°, 1.965 km
Becka Brook Ford or Becka Ford
NE, 46°, 1.965 km
Haytor Quarry North Gate
SE, 123°, 2.073 km
Feather and Tare Stone, above Haytor Quarry
SE, 127°, 2.086 km
Becky Falls Car Park
NE, 50°, 2.136 km
450 m Contour Ring, Haytor Rocks (1)
SE, 136°, 2.177 km
Becka Falls Stone Row (Possible)
NE, 55°, 2.180 km
Haytor Rocks
SE, 133°, 2.211 km
Haytor Rock Basins
SE, 133°, 2.216 km
J.S. 1827 Inscription on Haytor Rocks
SE, 133°, 2.216 km
450 m Contour Ring, Haytor Rocks (2)
SE, 133°, 2.218 km
Apple crusher south of Haytor Rocks
SE, 133°, 2.225 km
