Druid Stone Trough

Acknowledgement: NGR and photo kindly supplied by Jon White, ‘Torbagga’.

The Quartz Stone

Down as a land feature although it is within a wall, it is the geology here that interested me, and there are a couple of others similar along the same stretch.

Druid Cottage Parole Stone

Notes: As Dave Brewer (2002) explains, “Ashburton is said to have erected seven stones set at a distance of ‘1 Mile’ from the ‘Extreme parts of the town’ to define the limits to which the prisoners were permitted to walk or ride, but the roads so marked were far from being turnpiked roads in all cases… One also exists on Druids Hill near the entrance to Druid Cottage, sited a mile from Great Bridge…

Reference:

  • Brewer, D. (2002): Dartmoor Boundary Markers: And Other Markers on And Around the Moor.

Druid

Reference:

  • Sandles, T. (undated): Legendary Dartmoor, Gazetteer.