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 Of Dartmoor and its Borderland, 69 The church is a true type of our moorland sanctuaries, with a substantially-built tower, round which the wind is for ever whistling. Near the south porch is a stone to the memory of £dmond Herring, a former vicar of the parish who died in J 766. Not very far to the east of the church is the old church-house, overlooking the graveyard, and this is the only habitation near. In the wall is a granite stone bearing the date 1598, and the house has a very ancient appearance. There are several old arched granite doorways, and in the passage is a very curious projecting block of granite, quaintly carved to resemble a human face of colossal proportions. In a corner of the yard, near the door of the house, is another stone like the one we have seen near Roborough, but of more uneven form. It measures some two-and- a-half feet across by three feet or more, and the socket or hole is nearly square, being twelve inches by thirteen. If the Roborough stone and the one at Dousland were really what there is some evidence for supposing them to be, this stone was certainly the base of a cross also. Descending to Walkhampton we once more follow the road to Sampford Spiney, crossing the Walkham at Huck worthy Bridge, where is a hamlet, most pleasingly placed. The hill on the further side of the bridge is very steep, but not of great length. Our old path diverges from the modern road ere we reach the top, and following this we shall quickly gain a small piece of common, and keeping along by the hedge on our left shall be led directly to the next one of the crosses that mark the road we have been pursuing from Plympton. It stands on a small mound of turf, on the edge of the little common, at a point where a road diverges to Tavistock. It is six-and-a-half feet high, over a foot in width, and about ten inches in average thick- ness. The arms are short, measuring only one foot seven inches across, the southerly one having a part of it broken off; they are about five inches in depth. The cross is rudely cut, and of similar character to those usually found on the moor. A fine view of Walkhampton Common is obtainable from it» with the rocks of Inga Tor rising to the eastward. Looking up the lane that leads to Tavistock we see Pu Tor, a pro- minent pile from many points in this locality, rising above the cultivated country in the foreground.