South Tawton Church is fine. The restorer has taken the monumental slabs, sawn them in half, and employed them for lining the drain round the church, thus destroying the historical records of the parish. This is the more to be regretted, as a fire that occurred in the parsonage has seriously damaged the old registers. There is a fine Wyke monument in the church. But by far the most interesting church within an excursion of Okehampton is Bratton Clovelly, which, although not large, has a stately grandeur internally that is very impressive. Much money has been spent in "restoring" this church. The glass is good, but the new work in wood and alabaster is barely passable. North Lew Church contains very fine old oak, beside modern woodwork of poverty-stricken design. There are some early Christian monuments near Okehampton, a well at Sticklepath with an inscribed stone by it, and another inscribed stone by the roadside from Okehampton to Exeter. NOTE.--Books that may be consulted:-- BRIDGES (M. B.), _Some Account of the Barony and Town of Okehampton_. New edition, Tiverton, 1889. WORTH (R. N.), "Okehampton Castle," in _Transactions of the Devonshire Association_, 1895. CHAPTER XIII. MORETON HAMPSTEAD Moreton Church--The almshouse--The dancing tree--Other dancing trees--The vintner's bush--The calculating boy--Life of Mr. Bidder--The ravens of Brennan--Grimspound--The Great Central Trackway--Stone rows--The Lych Way--Churches--Bowerman's Nose--Ashton--The Duchess of Kingston--Hennock--The Loveys family--Parson Harris--John Cann's Rocks--Lustleigh Cleave--Hound Tor and Hey Tor Rocks--Widecombe--The Ballad of Tom Pearse. Moreton, with its whitewashed cottages and thatched roofs, has a primitive appearance, and withal a look of cleanliness. It is now the fashion to go to Chagford, which has been much puffed, but Moreton makes quite as good a headquarters for Dartmoor excursions. It has a fine church of the usual type, that was gutted at its so-called restoration, and a remarkably fine carved oak screen was turned out, but happily secured by the late Earl of Devon, who gave it to Whitchurch, near Tavistock. A few years ago the fine screen of South Brent was thrown out when the church was made naked under the pretence of restoration, and allowed to rot in an outhouse. Moreton undoubtedly at one time was a town in the moors, and the bold ridge that runs from Hell Tor to Hennock to the east was till comparatively recently furze-and-heather-clad moor. An object of singular picturesqueness in Moreton is the almshouse, with the date of 1637, with a charming arcade of granite stunted pillars. Opposite another almshouse has been erected in modern times, to show how badly we can do things now when our forefathers did things well.