TWO Okehampton landmarks have passed ?Go? and secured their places on a new Devon version of Monopoly launched this week.

The Museum of Dartmoor Life in Okehampton replaces the Euston Road square, which costs £100, and Okehampton Station takes the Fenchurch Station slot, which costs £200.

Museum of Dartmoor Life curator Maurie Webber said she was pleased and surprised to have been chosen for the board. ?Hopefully, it will be good publicity for us. We are already on the map, but now we are on a board!,? she said.

Mrs Webber said she had contacted the game?s makers to put forward the museum after reading about the Devon Monopoly board in the Okehampton Times. She said the museum would be selling copies of the Devon Monopoly game in the run-up to Christmas.

The 33 spaces on the customised board were decided with help of a public vote during the spring and summer. The second most expensive square on the board, Park Lane, is taken by Dartmoor and costs £350. Exeter Cathedral beat Dartmoor to the coveted Mayfair slot ? price £400.

The game?s designer, London-based Monopoly mogul David Sommer, who is in Devon to help launch the game, said: ?The board reflects the hearts and minds of Devon.

?The game is proving popular before even a copy has been sold ? the new game has attracted record advance sales from county retailers.?

Winning Moves UK has the licence to produce regional variations of the world?s most popular board game, and has so far launched 17 regional versions. The firm decided to create a Devon one, following the success of a Cornish version last year.

It is estimated ?Go? has been passed approximately 13,000-million times since the game was first invented by out of work heating engineer Charles B Darrow in Pennsylvania in 1934.

The south of the borough is also represented, with Tavistock landing the bargain-basement Old Kent Road square on the board, and Haydown and waste disposal firm Biffa sharing the £60 square .

The Old Kent Road space may not seem the most desirable on the board but a game spokesmen said it was an ?up and coming? square and had been oversubscribed with nominations.

The limited edition Devon Monopoly board went on sale yesterday (Wednesday, October 30) with record advance orders.

l See next week?s Times for a competition to win a copy of the Devon Monopoly board game.