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Summary

The parish boundary south from Red Lake to Stony Bottom is marked by a row of 14 stones. Uncut or rough cut, those on the highest ground on Brown Heath are small, and none is a pillar stone associated with the 1803 erections on Ugborough and Harford Moors. It is not clear when these stones were placed. Two boundary stones at Red Lake, one measures 1m high by 0.7m wide by 0.15m thick, the other to the east measures 0.8m high, 1.0m wide and 0.25m thick.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66NW118
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1063743
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66NW/3

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BOUNDARY STONE (XVIII to XIX - 1750 AD? to 1880 AD)

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map, 113SE (Cartographic). SDV325644.

Crossing, W., 1912 (1965), Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor, 373 (Monograph). SDV320981.

The parish boundary south from Red Lake to Stony Bottom is marked by a row of 14 stones. Uncut or rough cut, those on the highest ground on Brown Heath are small, and none is a pillar stone associated with the 1803 erections on Ugborough and Harford Moors. It is not clear when these stones were placed.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Not visible.

Brewer, D., 1986, A field guide to the boundary markers on and around Dartmoor (Monograph). SDV309252.

This is the "Outer U Stone", marking the outermost bound of Ugborough Parish and its division from Harford Parish.
This point is also the boundary of these two parishes with Dartmoor Forest, and the W stone is the Dartmoor Forest boundary marker.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1993-1998, Dartmoor Royal Forest Project, H. Riley (Report - Survey). SDV346608.

(10/11/1994) Two boundary stones on the S bank of Red Lake at SX 64316634. The W stone is a moorland slab, 1m high, 0.7m wide and 0.15m thick. There is no inscription. Some 5m to the E is a moorland slab, 0.8m high, 1.0m wide and 0.25m thick. It is leaning slightly to the NE. The letters H U, 0.12 high, are inscribed on the SW face.

Ordnance Survey, 2023, Mastermap 2023 (Cartographic). SDV365227.

Boundary Stones are depicted on the modern base mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8082 - Survey of the Upper Erme Valley
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project

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