The Cross Tree, Moretonhampstead, Devon UK
N 50° 39.642 W 003° 45.771
30U E 446081 N 5612372
A historic granite cross and tree in the centre of a Dartmoor Town.
Waymark Code: WM7YZ3
Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/26/2009
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The Cross Tree was immortalised by R. D. Blackmore in his book Christowell is represented by a cross minus its shaft and enclosed near the Alms Houses. The fine old elm, cut and clipped in the form of a punch bowl and around which the village lads and lasses used to dance, has long since disappeared. In its place a beech tree has been planted. It is recorded that French officers on parole from Princetown Prison during the Napoleonic Wars, assembled around the Cross Tree with their band.
Type of Historic Marker: Remains of a Market Cross with a "replacement" historic tree.
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