Cranmere Pool had the first letterbox on Dartmoor installed in 1854. In May 1937 a new letterbox was installed. It was the idea of the Rev J.P.Baker, a Dartmoor explorer. It was made by Aubrey Tucker, a retired tin miner from Sticklepath, out of granite with an oak door. The money had been raised by an appeal in the Western Morning News. Ruth St Ledger-Gordon officiated, accompanied by Tucker, J. Newcombe Snr, J, Newcombe Jnr, A. Crocker and the writer Beatrice Chase. Dartmoor explorer Richard Hansford-Worth declined to attend, as he disapproved of the whole letterboxing project.

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