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Dartmoor Nature Alliance
Community & Organisations

Dartmoor Nature Alliance

Dartmoor Nature Alliance is campaigning to make Dartmoor a place where nature is in the ascendancy, and from which wildlife spills over into the surrounding countryside, where the needs of the natural environment come first.

Devonport Leat
Tors & Landmarks

Devonport Leat

Princetown

An eighteenth-century water channel built in the 1790s to supply Plymouth Dock, running for miles across the high moor from three northern streams.

Nuns Cross Farm
Tors & Landmarks

Nuns Cross Farm

Princetown

Remote moorland farmstead south of Princetown, built in 1901 near the ancient Nun's Cross boundary marker.

Hartor Corner
Tors & Landmarks

Hartor Corner

Okehampton

A small granite tor on Okehampton Common made of broken, flat blocks, standing at 436 metres on the open moor.

Amicombe Brook
Tors & Landmarks

Amicombe Brook

Mary Tavy

A moorland brook rising in boggy terrain between Amicombe Hill and Great Kneeset on the north-west moor, flowing west to join the River Tavy.

Henry's Ford
Tors & Landmarks

Henry's Ford

Belstone

A ford across the East Okement River on the north-east moor, passable by stone-hopping in low water but requiring a wade or diversion in spate.

Fatherford Woods
Tors & Landmarks

Fatherford Woods

Okehampton

Wooded river valley on the East Okement south-east of Okehampton, dominated by the stone Fatherford Viaduct carrying the Dartmoor Line.

St Andrew Church - Moretonhampstead
Tors & Landmarks

St Andrew Church - Moretonhampstead

Moretonhampstead

Grade I listed medieval parish church in Moretonhampstead centre, notable for its early fifteenth-century tower and traditional Devon wagon roof.

Old Farm (ruins)
Tors & Landmarks

Old Farm (ruins)

Princetown

Ruins of a moorland farmhouse built around 1871 by John Hooper near Nun's Cross, south of Princetown.