Staddlestones, Morwellham Farm, West Devon UK - Old Agricultural Equipment on Waymarking.com

This is a unique collection of granite staddlestones. There must be about 30 of them, not all show up in the photo as some are under the shadow of the trees. You often see them as garden ornaments but not at a farm as they haven’t been used for many years.
They are probably about 200 – 300 years old and would have been used to stack hay.
The hay would have been stacked on top on the staddlestones to keep it off the damp ground.
Morwellham Farm is part of a living museum; the farm is situated close to Morwellham Quay.
Morwellham is a living museum and a World Heritage Site.
Morwellham is located some 3km below the tidal limit near Gunnislake and 32 km from Plymouth. The port occupies the floodplain of a wide meander and is backed by sharply rising and thickly wooded valley sides which rise to over 180m. It was connected to Tavistock (6.5km away) via the Tavistock Canal completed in 1817. Morwellham was also connected to Devon Great Consols, once the richest copper mine in the world, by a standard gauge mineral railway (and incline-plane) in 1859.

Use or Purpose of Equipment: Storing Hay Approximate age: 200-300 years Manufacturer and model: Dartmoor Granite Still in Use?: No Location: Farm Museum Fee for Access: no

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