Penn Beacon, Cornwood, Dartmoor National Park

Penn Beacon, Cornwood, Dartmoor National Park

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a beacon as 'a fire or light set up in a high or prominent position as a warning, signal, or celebration’. There is a chain of beacons on Dartmoor running from the edge of the north moor down to the edge of the south moor. Penn Beacon is at the edge of the south moor. Running south to north, the beacons are:

Western Beacon.

Penn Beacon.

Ugborough Beacon.

Buckland Beacon.

Hameldown Beacon.

Cosdon Beacon.