Open Air Chapel

On a 20 mile challenge walk on Dartmoor, with Mrs. M and friends, and 150 others. This place, in a remote area near Huntingdon Warren, is of interest. These ruins are in fact a chapel which was built by William Keble Martin, the author of The Concise British Flora, and his companions, in 1904. In his autobiography he wrote... We had a little sheltered gulley in the rocks, which was our church, and Arthur inscribed a cross at one end on an erect stone. We had morning service here and called it Mattins Corner...", Keble Martin, 1968, p.66.

The chapel is located at the ominous grid reference of SX 666 666. This would have been unknown to Keble Martin as the grid reference would not have been established until after 1936. Rev.William Keble Martin was 88 when his Concise British Flora in Colour was published in May 1965. It's never too late...