"The moorfolk in the vicinity [of Merrivale] call the place the Potato Market. It is said that when the plague raged at Tavistock in 1625, and no one dared to go into town, food was brought to the top of the hill and laid among the hut circles. Then Tavistock men came and fetched it away, leaving money for payment in the same place."
Cresswell 1921
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