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This granite cross – for what you can see of it – stands on the ancient Mariners’ Way route from Dartmouth to Bideford. However, we learn from the Dartmoor Crosses website that the cross was originally sited elsewhere, “to mark the junction of the ancient tracks between Exeter/Tavistock and Chagford/Bovey Tracey.” Indeed, it is just off the B3212 which was a Turnpike road, though the cross must date to much earlier than that?

“In the early years of the 20^th Century, the cross was found built into the garden wall at Moor Gate Farm. At the time, the farm was known as Leeper Farm, hence the name given to the cross. The cross was then moved to the Manor House at North Bovey, by the Lord of the Manor, Viscount Hambledon. It was returned to its current position when the manor changed hands in 1937.“

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