DEV_0377 - Bennet's Cross, Dartmoor, Devon - November 01, 1982

Although the exact reason for Bennet’s Cross, which lies beside the B3212 road near the Warren House Inn, being erected is not known, it has served at least three different purposes:

•Boundary Stone for the parishes of North Bovey and Chagford

•Boundary Stone for the Headland Warren (WB – Warren Bounds)

•Boundary marker showing the limit of the Vitifer Mine complex.

Size: 5 feet 8 inches (1.70 metres) tall. 1 foot 9 inches (0.55 metres) across the arms.
That this cross is very old is borne out by the rough and rugged way it has been hewn out of a single block of granite, with a marked kink in the main shaft. The earliest recorded reference to the cross is in 1702, but it was probably erected long before this date. It has the letters ‘W B’ carved into the west-north-west face, which stand for ‘Warren Bounds’, to mark the limit of the Headland Warren boundary. In its day, this warren was fully occupied in supplying rabbit meat to the tinners of Vitifer Mines.

There are a number of theories as to how it got the name of Bennet’s Cross. One was that it was named after a 16th Century tin miner, by the name of William Bennet, who held the tin rights in this area and who had the cross erected to mark his boundary. Another theory is that this is one of a number of crosses marking the route between two Benedictine Monasteries at Exeter and Tavistock. (The word ‘Bennet’ or ‘Benet’ being a mediaeval corruption of Benedictine).

Camera: Contax 139 + Carl Zeiss F1.7 50mm Planar Lens.

For more 35mm archive views of Devon please click here: www.jhluxton.com/The-35mm-Film-Archive/Devon

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Teignbridge District (show map)

Taken on: November 2, 1982

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