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The Old Court House
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The Old Court House

A Grade II* listed building that once served as a courthouse.

The Sheepfold
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The Sheepfold

Postbridge, Chagford

Stone foundations of a moorland sheepfold, where Dartmoor's shepherds once gathered their flocks among the granite and heather.

Throwleigh Barton
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Throwleigh Barton

A Grade II* listed farmhouse on Dartmoor, likely dating from the medieval or early modern period, standing in the moorland landscape.

Tin Workings
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Tin Workings

Peat Cot

Weathered stone ruins of tin mining operations scattered across the high moor, remnants of Dartmoor's industrial past.

Dartmoor quiz
“The rain stopped suddenly, and the wind was hushed, except in the tops of invisible trees; and a streak of black boggy fog settled heavily.”

Which book is this from?

Christowell. Written by R. D. Blackmore in 1882.

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Tinners' beehive hut, Lade Hill Brook
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Tinners' beehive hut, Lade Hill Brook

A corbelled 'beehive' hut 2.7 m by 2 m inside with walls 0.8 m wide and 1.2 m high, built in a disused streamwork tye in the Lade Hill Brook valley.

Tinners' shelter, Black Ridge Brook
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Tinners' shelter, Black Ridge Brook

A tinners' shelter 4.9 m by 3.4 m inside with walls up to 1.1 m high and a roughly circular outer wall, beside the Black Ridge Brook.

Tinners' shelter, Cut Combe Water
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Tinners' shelter, Cut Combe Water

A tinners' shelter 5.4 m by 2.9 m inside, a drystone wall up to 0.75 m high with an entrance gap, a recess that may be a cupboard and a raised platform, above Cut Combe Water.

Trowlesworthy Warren Farm
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Trowlesworthy Warren Farm

Trowlesworthy, Shaugh Prior

Early 19th-century farmhouse on Trowlesworthy Warren, also known as the Warren House: a private farm on National Trust land and the opening scene of The Three Brothers.