Gibbet Hill is located between the villages of Mary Tavy and Lydford, next to the A186, one of the few major roads leading through the moor. In medieval times, this used to be the King’s Way, one of the important connecting routes between Tavistock and Okehampton. The route was infested with highwaymen, so Gibbet Hill – visible from afar – was used to hang the corpses of executed felons. This was done until the nineteenth century. Other stories have it, that prisoners where even hanged alive, in a cage dangling from a gibbet.
Be that as it may, there ghosts can still be heard howling through a windy night.