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"Chagford in the dirt" -- The making of Chagford -- The old / clerk -- The church -- Tincombe Lane -- Chagford Common -- Flint / finds -- Scaur Hill circle -- Stone rows -- The Tolmen -- The Teign / river -- Camps on it -- Drewsteignton cromlech -- Gidleigh -- Old / farmhouses -- Fernworthy -- The Grey Wethers -- Teignhead / House -- Browne's House -- Story about it -- Grimspound -- Birch Tor / stone rows -- Chaw Gully -- The Webburn.
Chagford is in Domesday written Chageford, and this is the local pronunciation of the name at the present day. The natives say "Chageford in the dirt -- O good Lord!"