South Zeal

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South Zeal
Devon
Market cross, South Zeal - geograph.org.uk - 1092508.jpg
South Zeal
Location
Grid reference: SX650935
Location: 50°43’34"N, 3°54’46"W
Data
Post town: Okehampton
Postcode: EX20
Local Government
Council: West Devon

South Zeal is a small village on Dartmoor, in Devon, at the north edge of the High Moor, four miles east of Okehampton. The village just to the north-west is Sticklepath, separated from South Zeal by the valley of the River Taw, while to the north is South Tawton, a smaller village but the mother village of the parish.

There is a Methodist chapel in South Zeal, but no Church of England church: the parish church stands in South Tawton.

The village grew around the manorial hall of the Manor of South Zeal, the estate of which included much pf South Tawton. The manor house was built around a former monastery which itself was built around a Neolithic standing stone called the South Zeal Menhir. The house is now the Oxenham Arms; an inn and hotel in the centre of the village.

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