Dunnabrdge Pound is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Pound.
Dunnabrdge Pound
- WRENN ID
- ragged-glass-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- Pound
- Address
- Dunnabrdge Pound, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 646 745
- Coordinates
- 50.55514, -3.91268
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dunnabridge Pound is a likely medieval pound, although some rebuilding may have occurred. It features a drystone wall made of large rough granite blocks and is arranged in a roughly circular plan. The entrance faces the present road and is divided by a granite monolith into a wider and narrower opening. Immediately to the left inside the pound is a large stone seat that is integral with the wall, topped with a large granite canopy that provides shelter.
This pound is very well preserved and holds significance in the history of the moor and its ancient tenements. A document from 1627 notes that tenants of the ancient tenements were accustomed to making three separate drifts each year for cattle and one for horses that grazed in the surrounding forest, attending Dunnabridge Pound for two or three days and nights for watering and pasturing their livestock. Those who complied were rewarded with a halfpenny loaf, while those who refused faced a fine of 6 shillings and 8 pence.
Local climate
Dunnabrdge Pound receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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