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Of Dartmoor and its Borderland, 163 boundary mark. Being near the junction of roads, the place is precisely such as we should expect to find chosen as the site of one. The name is somewhat similar to that of the farm of Chittleford, in the immediate vicinity, but whether it be a corruption of it or not, I am unable to say. We now turn southward, following the Ashburton road for about a mile and a quarter to Cold East Cross. On the way we pass the ruined walls of Newhouse, which when Rowe wrote his Perambulation was a small hostelry. Then striking over the common on the right, we shall descend upon the retired hamlet of Buckland-in-the-Moor ; or, if we prefer it, may follow the road to that place, which will take us by Welstor Cross. We shall find that Buckland can furnish us with more than one example of the objects in quest of which our steps have brought us to this quarter of the moorlands. Laid as a coping stone on the low wall of the churchyard, quite close to the south gate, is the upper portion of the octagonal shaft of a cross, with the head and one of the arms. Owing to its being covered in part with ivy, no accurate measurements of it can be taken, but the fragment is about two feet in length. Just without the gate, and built of granite stones, of which many have a coating of moss, is what was perhaps the , pedestal of this cross, though from the size of the sycamore tree that now grows in its centre it is certain that a very long period must have elapsed since it stood there. Its shape is octagonal ; it measures over ten feet across, and each of its sides from four feet to four feet and a few inches. Its height is about twenty-two inches, and the slabs composing its top project and form a cornice. The little church of Buckland-in-the-Moor is an ancient structure, and possesses several interesting features. It is a daughter church to Ashburton, and is so described in Bishop Lacy's Register of the year 1420. The manor was given by Roger of Buckland to Tor Abbey about the beginning of the thirteenth century. The other example is not far distant. It is a rude cross built into the wall of the lawn at Buckland, between the entrance doors and the higher gate. At some period it has been used at a gate-post, as is shown by a broken hole> evidently drilled to receive a hinge. One shoulder slightly