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East Bovey Head
Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
East Bovey Head (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) on The Modern Antiquarian, the UK & Ireland's most popular megalithic community website. 14 images, 1 fieldnote, plus information on many more ancient sites nearby and across the UK & Ireland.
Image © Robert Gladstone
Nearest Town:
Ashburton (13km SE)
OS Ref (GB):
SX694823 /
Sheet: 191
Latitude:
50° 37' 30.51" N
Longitude:
3° 50' 47.78" W
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Shapley Common (0.55km NNE) (12 posts)
Shapley Tor (0.7km ESE) (6 posts)
Birch Tor (1.06km SW) (13 posts)
Challacombe (1.48km SSW) (20 posts)
Grims Lake Mire (1.56km ESE) (11 posts)
Grimspound & Hookney Tor (1.56km SE) (62 posts)
King's Barrow (1.74km E) (9 posts)
West Vitifer (1.94km W) (2 posts)
Hamel Down (2.01km SE) (6 posts)
Hurston Ridge (2.1km W) (20 posts)
Hurston Ridge (2.1km W) (3 posts)
Chagford Common (2.4km WNW) (3 posts)
Water Hill (2.41km WSW) (1 post)
Water Hill (2.54km WSW) (2 posts)
Heath Stone (2.68km W) (2 posts)
Metherall Settlement (3.1km W) (14 posts)
East Lowton settlement (3.16km W) (18 posts)
Soussons Down (3.19km SSW) (2 posts)
Assycombe Hill (3.3km W) (36 posts)
Fernworthy Round House (3.31km W) (20 posts)
Thornworthy Down (3.35km WNW) (13 posts)
Soussons Common Cairn Circle (4.15km SSW) (37 posts)
Stannon Newtake (4.19km WSW) (2 posts)
Fernworthy Cairn and Cairn Circle (Eastern) (4.19km W) (6 posts)
Fernworthy SE (4.28km W) (4 posts)
Fernworthy Stone Row (South) (4.28km W) (9 posts)
Fernworthy (4.31km W) (70 posts)
Fernworthy stone row (North) (4.37km W) (19 posts)
Cator Common North Cairn (4.73km SSW) (4 posts)
Shovel Down & The Long Stone (4.85km WNW) (70 posts)
Shovel Down (5.06km WNW) (3 posts)
Bowerman's Nose (5.15km E) (18 posts)
Kes Tor (5.34km WNW) (8 posts)
Puggie Stone (5.47km NNW) (1 post)
Sittaford Tor hut circles (5.48km W) (3 posts)
Meacombe Burial Chamber (5.54km NE) (15 posts)
The Greywethers (5.54km W) (88 posts)
Hound Tor (5.86km ESE) (26 posts)
Roundy Park (6.07km WSW) (18 posts)
Roundy Park (6.07km WSW) (3 posts)
Tolmen Stone (6.17km WNW) (4 posts)
Chittaford Cairn and Cist (6.37km WSW) (10 posts)
Sittaford (6.4km W) (16 posts)
Scorhill (6.42km WNW) (82 posts)
Chittaford Down (6.47km WSW) (11 posts)
Kraps Ring (6.51km SW) (6 posts)
Archerton, Newtake (6.59km SW) (3 posts)
Riddon Ridge (6.66km SSW) (5 posts)
Riddon Ridge Field Systems (6.66km SSW) (4 posts)
Hunter's Tor (6.74km ENE) (11 posts)
Lakehead Hill (6.78km SW) (55 posts)
The Dun Stone (6.85km SE) (2 posts)
Top Tor (7.14km ESE) (7 posts)
Buttern Hill Chambered Cairn. (7.26km WNW) (10 posts)
Buttern Hill (7.39km WNW) (2 posts)
Tunhill Rocks (7.52km SE) (1 post)
Bellever (7.58km SW) (33 posts)
Black Hill (7.58km E) (16 posts)
Rowtor Bog Cairns (7.63km WSW) (17 posts)
Corndon Tor (7.64km S) (1 post)
Buttern Hill Stone Circle (7.65km WNW) (32 posts)
Arch Tor (South-West) (7.65km SW) (3 posts)
Seven Lords' Lands (7.67km ESE) (11 posts)
Broad Down Cairn (7.72km WSW) (3 posts)
Foale's Arrishes (7.73km ESE) (9 posts)
Throwleigh (b) circle (7.79km WNW) (1 post)
Sharpitor Nutcrackers (7.81km E) (1 post)
Black Hill (7.81km E) (11 posts)
Bellever Tor West (7.87km SW) (9 posts)
Blackslade Down (7.88km SE) (8 posts)
Laughter Tor (7.98km SSW) (11 posts)
Cranbrook Castle (8km NNE) (13 posts)
Wittaburrow (8.1km SE) (11 posts)
Corndon Tor (8.11km S) (34 posts)
Haytor Rock (8.21km ESE) (2 posts)
Stennen Hill (8.22km SW) (10 posts)
Whitehorse Hill (8.28km W) (7 posts)
Black Newtake (8.45km SW) (10 posts)
Rippon Tor (8.47km ESE) (23 posts)
White Tor Stone Row (8.48km WSW) (10 posts)
Yar Tor (8.49km S) (22 posts)
The Spinsters' Rock (8.5km N) (51 posts)
Yar Tor summit cairn (8.5km S) (10 posts)
Horridge Common (West) (8.68km ESE) (2 posts)
Mardon Down Stone Circle (8.77km NE) (32 posts)
Giant's Grave (Dartmoor) (8.78km NE) (15 posts)
Mardon Down Cairns (8.88km NE) (12 posts)
Mardon Down Cairn Circle (9.06km NE) (28 posts)
Dunnabridge Pound (9.06km SSW) (6 posts)
Yar Tor Hut Circle (9.11km S) (6 posts)
Coffin Stone (9.15km S) (1 post)
Mardon Down (9.36km NE) (1 post)
Prestonbury Castle (9.36km NNE) (17 posts)
Horridge Common (9.38km ESE) (3 posts)
White Moor Stone Circle (9.43km WNW) (58 posts)
Littaford Tor (9.46km WSW) (1 post)
Cut Hill (9.47km W) (15 posts)
Crow Tor (9.61km WSW) (3 posts)
Horridge Common (9.63km ESE) (8 posts)
Wistman's Wood (9.77km SW) (4 posts)
Beardown Man (10.13km WSW) (14 posts)
Wooston Castle (10.25km NE) (15 posts)
White Hill (10.58km WNW) (21 posts)
Sherberton Stone Circle (10.62km SSW) (33 posts)
Cosdon Hill (10.68km NW) (38 posts)
Aller Brook (10.81km S) (2 posts)
Down Ridge (10.83km SSW) (15 posts)
Cosdon Beacon (10.86km WNW) (4 posts)
Swincombe Ford Newtake (11.19km SSW) (2 posts)
Conies Down (11.23km WSW) (1 post)
Holne Moor Triple Row (11.35km S) (2 posts)
Round Hill (11.43km SW) (8 posts)
Holne Moor (11.53km S) (3 posts)
Blakey Tor (11.79km SW) (6 posts)
Long Plantation (11.79km WSW) (3 posts)
Pecked Circle (11.93km SSW) (1 post)
Joan Ford's Newtake (11.97km SSW) (4 posts)
Oxenham Arms (11.98km NW) (7 posts)
Higher Tor (12.26km WNW) (7 posts)
The Crock of Gold Cist (12.28km SW) (7 posts)
Skir Hill (12.36km SSW) (1 post)
Royal Hill (12.5km SW) (0 posts)
Royal Hill Cist (12.58km SW) (24 posts)
Broken Barrow (12.82km SW) (11 posts)
Ryder's Hill (12.87km S) (3 posts)
Cullever Steps (12.93km WNW) (6 posts)
Ter Hill (12.98km SSW) (3 posts)
Fordsland Ledge (13.23km W) (22 posts)
Nine Stones (13.3km WNW) (32 posts)
Watchet Hill (13.36km WNW) (6 posts)
High Willhays (13.4km W) (14 posts)
Mardle Valley (13.68km S) (2 posts)
Yes Tor (13.83km WNW) (26 posts)
Childe's Tomb (13.87km SSW) (7 posts)
Bude Farm Sticklepath (13.89km NW) (1 post)
Hembury Castle (14.15km SSE) (26 posts)
Langstone Moor (14.23km WSW) (5 posts)
Langstone Moor Stone Circle (14.25km WSW) (29 posts)
Goldsmith's Cross/Fox Tor Mire (14.32km SSW) (5 posts)
Langstone Moor (14.5km WSW) (3 posts)
Devil's Gully Settlement (14.61km SW) (8 posts)
Fox Tor Mire (14.72km SW) (2 posts)
Langstone Moor Stone Row (14.77km WSW) (13 posts)
East Hill (14.81km WNW) (12 posts)
Little Mis Tor (14.91km WSW) (8 posts)
Longstone Hill (14.92km W) (6 posts)
Great Links Tor (15.02km W) (12 posts)
Pupers Hill (15.15km S) (15 posts)
White Tor East (15.2km WSW) (7 posts)
Roos Tor Northeast (15.22km WSW) (1 post)
Doe Tor (15.25km W) (6 posts)
Yellowmeade (15.26km WSW) (3 posts)
White Tor Settlement (15.5km WSW) (17 posts)
Stall Moor Stone Row (15.6km SSW) (14 posts)
Corn Ridge (15.7km W) (21 posts)
Heap of Sinners (15.71km S) (14 posts)
Hart Tor (15.75km SW) (48 posts)
The Plague Market At Merrivale (15.8km WSW) (125 posts)
Yes Tor Bottom (15.82km SW) (2 posts)
Merrivale Bridge Settlement (15.87km WSW) (11 posts)
Black Tor (15.91km SW) (9 posts)
Merrivale Stone Circle (16.02km WSW) (55 posts)
Great Western Reave (16.12km WSW) (2 posts)
Snowdon (16.2km S) (7 posts)
Raddick Hill (16.23km SW) (17 posts)
Huntingdon Warren Settlement (16.28km S) (2 posts)
Dean Moor (16.32km S) (9 posts)
Great Gnat's Head (16.35km SSW) (4 posts)
Sourton Tors Circle (16.36km W) (4 posts)
Great Nodden (16.39km W) (4 posts)
Narrator Brook Head cairn (16.39km SW) (11 posts)
Narrator Brook Head enclosure (16.42km SW) (11 posts)
Biller's Pound (16.43km S) (3 posts)
Black Tor (16.5km SW) (17 posts)
Brockhill Enclosed Settlements (16.63km S) (1 post)
Eylesbarrow (16.64km SW) (18 posts)
Buckland Ford Cairn Circle (16.65km S) (10 posts)
Brockhill Ford West (16.76km S) (2 posts)
Gripper's Hill (16.81km S) (15 posts)
Down Tor NW (16.83km SW) (1 post)
Down Tor (16.83km SW) (81 posts)
Hucken Tor (16.87km WSW) (2 posts)
Hingston Hill North (16.91km SW) (3 posts)
Higher Bury Camp (16.94km NE) (1 post)
Brockhill Foot West (16.97km S) (10 posts)
Ingra Tor (17.02km SW) (2 posts)
Calveslake Tor (17.09km SSW) (3 posts)
Vixen Tor (17.13km WSW) (25 posts)
Harbourne Head cairns (17.19km SSE) (3 posts)
Harbourne Head (17.29km SSE) (6 posts)
Leeden Tor South (17.32km SW) (2 posts)
Down Tor South (17.33km SW) (3 posts)
Western White Barrow (17.37km S) (4 posts)
Cuckoo Rock (17.4km SW) (3 posts)
Eastern White Barrow (17.43km S) (1 post)
Chudleigh Rocks (17.44km E) (6 posts)
Cox Tor (17.48km WSW) (3 posts)
Plym Steps (17.53km SSW) (10 posts)
Erme Pound (17.53km SSW) (5 posts)
Plym Steps Round Cairn (17.59km SSW) (5 posts)
Langcombe Brook / Deadman's Bottom (17.75km SSW) (36 posts)
Sharpitor Cist (17.8km SW) (5 posts)
Sharpitor cairns (17.83km SW) (18 posts)
Barn Hill / Whitchurch Down (17.84km WSW) (3 posts)
Higher Hartor Tor (17.84km SSW) (4 posts)
Grim's Grave (17.87km SSW) (14 posts)
Hook Lake (17.94km SSW) (5 posts)
Ditsworthy Warren (17.96km SW) (8 posts)
Sharpitor (17.97km SW) (15 posts)
Hook Lake (18.01km SSW) (4 posts)
Cotley Castle (18.03km ENE) (0 posts)
Eylesbarrow South West (18.05km SW) (11 posts)
Rider's Rings (18.06km S) (0 posts)
Outcombe (18.16km SW) (2 posts)
Drizzlecombe Megalithic Complex (18.28km SSW) (131 posts)
Leather Tor South (18.28km SW) (2 posts)
Castle Dyke (Chudleigh) (18.31km E) (2 posts)
Erme Plains (18.32km SSW) (1 post)
Stall Moor Cairn (18.35km SSW) (7 posts)
Gallows Hill (18.36km W) (2 posts)
Denbury (18.37km ESE) (9 posts)
Denbury Hillfort round barrows (18.38km ESE) (6 posts)
Horseyeatt (18.45km SW) (5 posts)
Peek Hill (18.51km SW) (2 posts)
Yellowmead SE cairn (18.59km SW) (5 posts)
Whittenknowles Rocks Settlement (18.67km SW) (9 posts)
Yellowmead Multiple Stone Circle (18.72km SW) (67 posts)
Stall Moor Stone Circle (18.83km SSW) (30 posts)
Berry's Wood (18.89km ESE) (2 posts)
Blatchford Bottom settlements (19.15km SSW) (3 posts)
Gutter Tor (19.25km SW) (2 posts)
Bow Henge (19.33km N) (1 post)
Gutter Tor cairns (19.39km SW) (6 posts)
Gutter Tor Cist (19.45km SW) (13 posts)
Hen Tor North / Shavercombe Brook (19.45km SSW) (8 posts)
Gutter Tor settlement (19.47km SW) (3 posts)
St Leonard's Well (19.78km SW) (4 posts)
Ditsworthy Cairn Circle (19.94km SSW) (2 posts)
- Facilities within 20 km -
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Warren House Inn (Pub: 2.3 km SW)
The Ring of Bells Inn (Bed & Breakfast: 4.8 km ENE)
The Plume of Feathers Inn (Pub: 13.7 km SW)
Oxenham Arms Hotel (Hotel: 16.9 km NNW)
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As you head back north along the road from Grimspound you can see the larger of the stones. There is space to park and just a quick walk across the bracken there are a few circles and large stones scattered about. Oh, and some sheep :)
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