Some account of the barony and town of Okehampton: its antiquities and institutions . The Commons and Park of Okehampton, kvWilliam Crossing, Author of Amid Devottias Alps, The Ancient Crosses of Dartmoor^ etc. I .1 »W£. the old days when the perambulators of thebounds of the ancient Forest of Dartmoor werenearing the point whence they had setout—the huge hill of Cosdon—they reachedthe valley of the West Ockment at a place on theriver called Sandy Ford. From here as the goodmen and true, svvoren to enquire of the boundesand limitts of the old forest, made their way eastward, theyhad on their r
Some account of the barony and town of Okehampton: its antiquities and institutions . The Commons and Park of Okehampton, kvWilliam Crossing, Author of Amid Devottias Alps, The Ancient Crosses of Dartmoor^ etc. I .1 »W£. the old days when the perambulators of thebounds of the ancient Forest of Dartmoor werenearing the point whence they had setout—the huge hill of Cosdon—they reachedthe valley of the West Ockment at a place on theriver called Sandy Ford. From here as the goodmen and true, svvoren to enquire of the boundesand limitts of the old forest, made their way eastward, theyhad on their right hand a vast stretch of wild moor, thebrown, dreary looking ridges rolling away into the distance,while to the left of them were the commons belonging tothe parish of Okehampton. Immediately within theboundary of these commons rose the broad shoulder of alofty hill—the highest in our southern land—hiding thegreater portion of them from their view, nor, indeed, intheir progress over this part of the moor would these oldjurors, from any point, following the forest bounds, beholdthe full extent of them. HISTORY OF OKEHAMPTON. 193 Over these wastes, reaching from the West to the EastOckment, and northward
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