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![]() O/S Grid Ref: SX/71672/75845 Longitude/Latitude (Degrees+/-): -3.81342/50.56821 Map location: Click here to view map. Purpose: Waymarker for the path to Widecombe Church. Size: 3 feet (0.91 metres) tall. 1 foot 11 inches (0.58 metres) across the arms. The shaft is 14 inches (0.36 metres) wide and 8 inches (0.20 metres) in depth. Information: The manor house next to the village green is Dunstone Court, the traditional home of the Hamlyn family. Prior to 1860, the cross had fallen and was taken for safekeeping by the Rev. J.H. Mason, Vicar of Widecombe, and set up at the end of the wall to his garden. In 1981, Miss M. Hamlyn arranged for the cross to be re-erected in its rightful place back on the Dunstone village green. On one face of the cross, below the level of the arms, there is an incised cross which measures 8 inches (20 centimetres) high and 5 inches (13 centimetres) across the arms. The shaft of the cross is shorter than it was originally and it has been set up on a stack of three boulders.
Also on this tiny
village green is the ‘Dun’, or ‘Rent’ Stone. This is a large
boulder with a flat top, which is pock-marked with small |