Qualla: Dartmoor Crosses https://qualla.com/dartmoor-crosses en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/dartmoor-crosses-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Dartmoor Crosses https://qualla.com/dartmoor-crosses Dartmoor Crosses: Introduction https://qualla.com/dartmoor-crosses/ Photo credit Myself - Herby talk thyme, CC BY-SA 4.0. There are 132 known stone crosses on Dartmoor, scattered across 368 square miles of moorland and bog. The oldest, Siward's Cross, has stood at the junction of two medieval pilgrim paths since the reign of Edward the Confessor in the eleventh century. The most recent went up about a hundred years ago. Many of them were once navigation aids, the medieval equivalent of cairns on a Himalayan pass: stone landmarks that told a soaked, freezing traveller which way to walk to avoid dying in a mire. By 2005 the National Park Authority had begun microchipping the most vulnerable of them. Granite is durable. Theft is not.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/dartmoor-crosses-wp/gbvp-dartmoor-crosses-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Dartmoor Crosses: The Legend of the Drowned Monks https://qualla.com/dartmoor-crosses/ Photo credit Pasicles, CC0. The local explanation for why the crosses exist is more memorable than the historical one. According to the legend, four medieval monks at a Dartmoor abbey resented their abbot's rules on austere living. When the abbot left for Italy, the four robbed and murdered a wealthy Jewish...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/dartmoor-crosses-wp/gbvp-dartmoor-crosses-the-legend-of-the-drowned-monks.mp3 0:06 2 full Dartmoor Crosses: Siward's Cross, the Eldest https://qualla.com/dartmoor-crosses/ Photo credit Herbythyme, CC BY-SA 4.0. Siward's Cross, also known as Nun's Cross, is the largest and oldest recorded cross on Dartmoor. It is mentioned in the 1240 Perambulation of the Forest of Dartmoor, but it is certainly older than that. The cross was probably erected during the reign of Edward the Confessor betwe...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/dartmoor-crosses-wp/gbvp-dartmoor-crosses-siwards-cross-the-eldest.mp3 0:06 3 full Dartmoor Crosses: Bennett's Cross and the Hunger of Time https://qualla.com/dartmoor-crosses/ Photo credit Smalljim, CC BY-SA 3.0. Bennett's Cross stands beside the road from Moretonhampstead to Two Bridges, about 900 metres north-west of the Warren House Inn. Nothing is known of its early history, but its crudely-cut shape suggests great age. Over the centuries it served different purposes: as a route marke...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/dartmoor-crosses-wp/gbvp-dartmoor-crosses-bennetts-cross-and-the-hunger-of-time.mp3 0:06 4 full Dartmoor Crosses: Lost, Found, and the One They Refused to Believe In https://qualla.com/dartmoor-crosses/ Photo credit Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0. Goldsmith's Cross, on the Monks' Path between Childe's Tomb and Nun's Cross, was discovered in 1903 by Lieutenant M. Lennon Goldsmith, who found the socket, head, and lower shaft. It was the last major discovery of a cross on the moor. Goldsmith reported the find to William Cross...

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