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"Twist" (Ruined Farmhouse)
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"Twist" (Ruined Farmhouse)

Cudlipptown, Tavistock

A crumbling stone farmhouse deep on Dartmoor, slowly surrendering to weather and time.

Abbey Gatehouse
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Abbey Gatehouse

Grade I listed gatehouse, likely medieval, standing at the threshold between monastic and secular Dartmoor.

Addislade
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Addislade

A Grade II* listed building on the open moor, likely a historic farmstead or smallholding with deep roots in Dartmoor's settlement pattern.

Almshouses
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Almshouses

A Grade I listed building providing charitable housing.

Barn near Higher Shilstone Farmhouse
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Barn near Higher Shilstone Farmhouse

Grade II* listed farm buildings from the medieval or early modern period, standing south of Higher Shilstone Farmhouse on Dartmoor.

Beardown Hill rabbit warren
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Beardown Hill rabbit warren

A rabbit warren of at least 50 pillow mounds south of the abandoned Devonport Leat on Beardown Hill, first recorded in a Duchy of Cornwall lease of 1808, perhaps supplying Dartmoor Prison.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“In the howling wilderness about Cranmere Pool, where are no traces of human habitation, there lie the dead.”

Also on Our DartmoorThree round barrows E of Grenna Ball — Three Bronze Age burial mounds east of Grenna Ball, remnants of Dartmoor's prehistoric ritual landscape.