DescriptionBeech Tree and Dry Stone Wall, Dartmeet, Dartmoor. - geograph.org.uk - 1066881.jpg
English: Beech Tree and Dry Stone Wall, Dartmeet, Dartmoor. A long length of wall was made up of these immense slabs of stone on the road side just west of Dartmeet on the B3357 close to the junction with the Hexworthy road. They may have originated from the nearby quarry close to Huccaby Tor. This is the type of wall described by Rev. John Swete (d.1821) as built by Lord Ashburton on his nearby estate of Spitchwick (this wall is possibly within his former vast Widecombe-in-the-Moor estate): "...he raised a garden wall of such enormous blocks of moorstone that it hath been consider'd as the wonder of the country, and which doubtless may bid defiance to all attacks but that of an earthquake". (Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999, Vol.1, p.103)
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