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Ladybrook Tor Rock Basins

They’re quite shallow but they are there, and are believed to be the northernmost rock basins on Dartmoor.

Lady Brook Shepherd’s Shelter Structure

Reference: Featured Image, NGR and details kindly supplied by Steve Granger.

Notes: Steve reckons that this is a shepherd’s shelter of some sort that is “clearly old, manmade and abandoned.“

Hemery’s ‘Foxes’ Holt’

Notes: Eric Hemery (1983) states that the clitter beneath Ladybrook Tor is known as Foxes’ Holt, not the clitter on the north slope of Cosdon; however, the name has not been moved and it is not clear who is right here, or if both locations share the same name!

Reference:

  • Hemery, E. (1983): High Dartmoor – Land and People