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vi Contents, CHAPTER VI. The Crosses op Meavy : The Meavy Oak— A Missing Village Cross — Its Discovery and Restoration— Meavy Church — Cross in Wall of Transept — Tomb of Lady Seccomt>e — ^Tomb of Walter Mattacott—Gratton — Chapel of St Matthew — Greenwell Down —Green well Girt — Base of a Wayside Cross — Urgles — Wigford Down — An Old Path. ... ... ... ... ... 5^ CHAPTER VII. Crosses on the Lands of Amicia, Countess of Devon : Bickleigh Vale — Maynstone Cross — Wool well Cross — Bickleigh Cross — The Church— Socket Stone — Copris Cross — Buckland Abbey — Buckland Monachorum Cross — Shaft of Cross on Crapstone Farm— Horrabridge— Smalacumbe Cross — Sheepstor Cross — A Moorland Church — An Ancient Church House — ^The Pixies' Cave — The Path of the Monks ... ... ... ... 57 CHAPTER VIII. Meavy TO SampfordSpiney : Yennadon— Socket Stone at Dousland — Walkampton Church — ^An Old Church House — Socket-stone — Huckworthy Bridge — Cross on Huckworthy Common — Sampford Spiney Cross — Whitchurch Down ... ... 67 CHAPTER IX. The Abbots' NVay : An Ancient Track— Brock Hill Mire— Red Lake Ford — Broad Rock — Plym Steps — Springs of the Plym — Siward*s Cross — Its Early Mention — Inscription on the Cross — Bond mark of the Monks' Moor— Course of the Abbots* Way — The Windypost — Moortown — Cross on Whitchurch Down — Monkeys' Castle — A Broken Wayside Cross — Some Tavistock Worthies ... ... ... ... ... ... 71 CHAPTER X A Green Path of the Moor : Buckland to the South-east Border- Crazy Well Pool — Piers Gaveston— A Broken Cross — Remains of Cross by the Wayside— Stone Pillar— Fox Tor— Tomb of Childe the Hunter — A Tradition of the Forest — A Despoiled Monument — Discovery .of a Kistvaen — Death of the Lord of Plymstock— Fox Tor Newtake and its Crosses — Crosses of Ter Hill^-Stannaburrows — The Down Ridge Crosses — Horse Ford — Horn's Cross — An Old Road— Queen Victoria's Cross at Hexworthy — Holne Moor — Cross in Holne Churchyard — Birth- place of Charles Kingsley — Cross at Hawson — Buckfast Abbey — Base at Ash burton— Cross at Gulwell ... ... ... 84 CHAPTER XI. From the Tavy to the Taw : Tavistock — Old Market Cross — Hermitage of St. John — Inscribed Stones — A Period of Religious Activity — Tavistock Abbey— Remains of Cross at Peter Tavy —