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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hurston RidgeCountry: England County: Devon Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Nearest Town: Chagford Nearest Village: Postbridge
Map Ref: SX67308251 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.627147N Longitude: 3.877508W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Phillwhite visited on 16th Jul 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Hard to find but the view from the top looking down the row is stunning!
graemefield visited on 18th May 2017 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 3
SandyG visited on 16th May 2015 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 3 Car parking is available at SX 67576 81091. From here carefully cross the road and head north across open moorland. The row is about 1,300m from the car park. A map or reliable GPS device is highly recomended. Well worth the walk.
TheCaptain AngieLake have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4.33 Ambience: 4.67 Access: 3
The cairn end of the row comes into view first as the row runs down hill, it is cut partway down by the wall of a Bronze Age enclosure which contains the remains of 7 huts. It is adouble row containing 99 stones in 49 pairs with a blocking stone at the opposite end to the cairn, and well worth a visit.
This stone alignment is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 443788. It also features on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Hurston Ridge, which includes a description, photographs, a plan of the row, and the viewpoints which become visible (then disappear) along the length of the row.
Update November 2019: Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) includes two entries for this site; the first is for the Hurston Ridge Standing Stone. The second is for the Hurston Ridge Stone Row.
The stone row is also recorded as MDV6541 (Hurston Ridge Stone Row, Chagford) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1019577 (Stone alignment, cairns, enclosed prehistoric settlement and a length of reave on Hurston Ridge).
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