Original - The MAN & Other Families

22 The Ancient Stone CrossesCHAPTERIII.By theSouthern Border Heights.TJgborough Moor Bagga's Bush Old Guide-post Sandowl CrossHookinoor Cross Ugborough Church Bishop Prideaux OwleySpurrell's Cross Harford Broomhill to Ivybridge.The lineof stone posts which we noticed in our progressfrom Three Barrows to Western Whitaburrow serves tomark the boundary between the moors of Brent and Ugborough.The latter common extends from the forest to thefoot of the Eastern Beacon, near Wrangaton, thrusting itssouthern extremity into the cultivated country.Not far from the foot of this is situated the village ofUgborough, and thither we shall now proceed, afterwardsentering again upon the commons, and crossing them to theparishWe of Harford.shall leave Brent by the old Plymouth coach-road, andon crossing Brent Bridge shall find that it takes a course tothe right of the present highway. About a quarter of a milefrom the bridge is a spot called Bagga's Bush, near which isa stone worthy of a passing notice. It is an old guide-post,standing close by the roadside, small in size and barely thirtyinches in height. On its face is the letter M denoting thedirection of Modbury, the road, or lane, leading to that place,diverging a short distance further on. Its eastern and westernsides bear respectively the letters E and P, standing forExeter and Plymouth. The letters are cut in relief, two ofthem being much worn.Following the Modbury lane we shall soon reach a bridgeover the Glaze, a stream serving as a boundary between theparishes of Brent and Ugborough, just beyond which, near awayside inn called the Carew Arms, we cross the modernroad to Plymouth. The lane ascends the hill, and will leadus direct to the spot where we shall find the object that willnext claim our attention.This is a stone set up in the centre of a small open space,whence several roads diverge, named Sandowl Cross, but at