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Summary

A cluster of field names documented in the 19th century tithe apportionment

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX64NW/12

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BEACON (Unknown date)

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV139835.

Beacon point, 93m above sea level. Os 1". On the eastern side of erme mouth. Elizabethan.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV139837.

Russell, p. /tda/87(1955)293/fire beacons in devon, appendix b.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV139838.

Osa=sx64nw15.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV139839.

Des=ntas/properties between the erme and avon part 1: scobbiscombe farm/(1998)21.

National Trust, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV5615.

Vis=-/9/1997 (national trust) no features of interest surviving above ground. Earliest documentary reference to beacon site is donn's map of devon of 1765, establishing that site was a beacon before the napoleonic wars. Probable site of elizabethan armada-warning fire beacon. Used from late 19c to celebrate major royal events (national trust).

Collings, A., 20/03/2014, South Hams Beacons (Un-published). SDV357109.

Cluster of 4 beacon names, the highest point being in Waste in Great Beacon, tithe apportionment 7.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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