English: Uncultivated Field behind Bicton Park The top of the Rolle Obelisk in Bicton Park can be seen on the horizon. Rolle Obelisk, near Bicton Park, Devon. Built in 1747 by Henry Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (1708–1750), of Bicton House, as a visual attraction for the gardens (source: Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1989). The Buildings of England: Devon (second ed.). Penguin Books. pp. 172–174). Rolle also built the four-sided pillar in the centre of the four-cross-ways between the parishes of Bicton and Otterton in 1743, serving as a signpost for the various places to which the four roads lead. A Grade II listed building. Listed buildings text: [1]

BICTON BICTON PARK SY 08 NE 3/22 Rolle Obelisk including - surrounding area railings 11.ll.52 GV II Obelisk. Limestone ashlar; cast iron railings on granite kerb. C18 (1730 according to Hoskins). Tall stone needle on a large square-section pedestal with soffit-moulded cap and moulded plinth. It is fenced in by spear-headed iron railings with more ornate clustered-shaft corner posts. The obelisk is uninscribed and apparently built simply as a landscape feature. Its situation dominates the horizon from the Orangery (q.v.) and Italianate Gardens (q.v.). Source: W G Hoskins, Devon, (1954) p.335