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![]() O/S Grid Ref: SX/60572/59727 Longitude/Latitude (Degrees+/-): -3.96405/50.42082 Map location: Click here to view map. Purpose: Village Cross. Size: 10 feet 9 inches (3.28 m) tall. 4 feet (1.22 m) across the arms. The base of the shaft measures 15 inches (0.38 m) wide and 15 inches (0.38 m) deep. Information: This relatively modern Latin cross, erected in 1902, stands beneath a large tree at the crossroads in the centre of the village. The area around both the cross and the tree has been neatly cobbled. The cross is set up on an octagonal plinth of three steps. Each step is topped off with a flat slab, which slightly overlaps the riser. The shaft, which tapers towards the top, is square at the base and octagonal above. The head and arms are also octagonal to match. The whole cross is in very good condition, as one would expect of a cross that is only about 100 years old. There is an inscription around the riser of the bottom step, which reads: AD 1900 – OS NOSTRAQUE DEO – IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF – FREDERIC ROGERS, LORD BLACHFORD K.C.M.G. – AND OF HIS WIFE GEORGIANA MARY – HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY FAITHFULLY WITH 25 YEARS IN THE COLONIAL OFFICE.
In the middle of the
village, next to the village shop, is the former Smithy with its ‘Upping-Stocks’
or Mounting Block outside. This would have been used for riders to mount
their horses and to
Also within the Blachford Estate, the unusually named woodland of Hawns and Dendles runs up the valley, between the River Yealm and the Broadall Gulf, onto the moor. This is a truly magical place with the dense overhead canopy of trees, carpet of moss over the ground and water cascading over granite boulders in the river bed. No-one is quite certain how the name of Hawns came about, but it has been suggested that a Madam Hawns once owned a mansion within the western half of this woodland. However, records show that Dendles is a corruption of the name ‘Daniels’, who once owned a property within the eastern portion of the Woodland. |