Dennabridge Pound and the Judge's Chair

   
       
       
Reproduced courtesy of Francis Frith.
   

' A couple of miles or so more on the highroad brings us on the highroad to Dennabridge Pound, where a curiouse structure is said to be the "Judge's Chair" braught from the meeting-place of the stannary Parliamenton Crocken Tor; and at Dennabridge Farm, not far off, a large slab is shown as the Council Table. The pound itself, though originally perhaps a sacred circle, has been rebuilt in modern times, and adapted to the practical purposes in the periodical "drifts", when ponies and catle are driven together from a whole quarter of the moor, that stray animals may be sorted out and restored to their owners, a ceremony graphicly described in Mr. Baring-Gould's "Urith."'

Hope Moncrieff 1895