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Rhiannon R
Rhiannon Mar 14, 2008 11:40:09
Replying to Mr Hamhead

I had a look at some old maps of the tor, and there's 'St Bellarmin's Chapel (Remains of)' marked... On the 1:2500 for 1882 it's a definite rectangularish wall surrounding a little building. The latest edition 1:10,000 still has it marked, but there's only three walls.

So presumably it's still there.. better get your anorak on?

M Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead Mar 14, 2008 17:09:58
Replying to Rhiannon

Oh it's definitely still there...a rectangular wall built into the hillside. Interestingly as well as the main earth and stone wall there is also a single stone wall about a metre outside the main wall..The well may be on the west side of the plot, just outside the wall. The site is marked on the OS map of 1814 as a ruined chapel...is this a case of OS surveyors inventing things or did some local give them false info...or was it a chapel?

....it's keeping me occupied...

Mr H