Black Dog is a village in
Mid Devon
Mid Devon is a local government district in Devon, England. Its council is based in Tiverton.
The district was formed under the Local Government Act 1972, on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the borough of Tiverton and Crediton urban district ...
, ten miles west of
Tiverton and six miles north of
Crediton
Crediton is a town and civil parish in the Mid Devon district of Devon in England. It stands on the A377 Exeter to Barnstaple road at the junction with the A3072 road to Tiverton, about north west of Exeter and around from the M5 motorway ...
.
The village is on one of the highest ridges of land between
Dartmoor and
Exmoor, at an altitude of 656 feet.
[Ordnance Survey: Explorer map sheet 114 ''Exeter & the Exe Valley'' ] It enjoys views to both moors, but particularly of Dartmoor from the pub, now closed, the Black Dog Inn, which was a favoured watering hole for walkers on the '
Two Moors Way'. Black Dog is split between the
civil parishes of Washford Pyne and
Woolfardisworthy.
The Iron Age hill fort
Berry Castle, Black Dog
Berry Castle is an earthwork probably dating to the Iron Age close to Black Dog in Devon north of Crediton and west of Tiverton. It does not fit the traditional pattern of an Iron Age Hill fort
A hillfort is a type of earthwork used as a ...
is to the south (not to be confused with the other
Berry Castles within
Devon).
References
Villages in Devon
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