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Derivation of the name -- Phoenicians -- Taw Marsh -- Artillery / practice on the moors -- Encroachments -- The East Okement -- Pounds / and hut circles -- Stone rows on Cosdon -- Cranmere / Pool -- Sticklepath -- Christian inscribed stones -- South / Zeal -- West Wyke -- North Wyke -- The wicked Richard Weekes -- South / Tawton church -- The West Okement -- Yes Tor -- Camp and Roman / road -- Throwleigh.
A good deal of pseudo-antiquarianism has been expressed relative to the name of a little moorland parish two and a half miles uphill from Okehampton. It is now called Belstone, and it has been surmised that here stood a stone dedicated to Baal, whose worship had been introduced by the Phœnicians.