Belstone village green
Belstone, is a small village, picturesquely seated, 2 miles S.E. of Okehampton, at the northern extremity of Dartmoor Forest, between and near the sources of the rivers Taw and East Okement, where there are many rocky tors and highly interesting remains. Belstone is known as one of the beacon villages as it stands under the large Cosdon Beacon hill. On the village green is this standing stone beside the village stocks and near the village hall.