Historic Buildings
Bowden Farmhouse
A Grade II* listed farmhouse, likely medieval in origin, standing on Dartmoor's moorland fringe.
Historic Buildings
Listed buildings and historic structures - churches, farmhouses, bridges, mills and the like.
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Churches & Chapels
Brentor Church (St Michael de Rupe)
North Brentor, Tavistock
Brentor Church, St Michael de Rupe, is the parish church of Brentor and one of the iconic landmarks of West Devon, founded in 1130 on the summit of Brent Tor. The church believes it is the highest working church in southern England.
Historic Buildings
British Legion Hall
Grade II* listed hall built for the British Legion, a community landmark on the edge of Dartmoor.
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“Oh, Miss, how can I ever thank 'ee? I bathed my arms same as you told me at bedtime and got right in bed and slept till nine o'clock this morning without moving. Us haven't had such a night for months.”
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Historic Buildings
Brook Manor House
A Grade II* listed house on the edge of Dartmoor, likely dating from the medieval or early modern period.
Historic Buildings
Brown's House
Powder Mills, Chagford
Weathered stone ruins of a moorland dwelling, revealing how people once lived on Dartmoor's exposed granite landscape.
Churches & Chapels
Buckfast Abbey North Gate
Buckfast Abbey's north gate and part of its outer court: the 12th-century gate arch, buried guesthouse and guest hall remains, and the abbey's history from before 1018 to the Dissolution and 1882.
Historic Buildings
Buckfast Abbey, Main Block
The substantial stone core of Buckfast Abbey, a medieval monastic building with later modifications.
Churches & Chapels
Buckland Abbey
Milton Combe, Tavistock
A Tudor monastery turned private home, Buckland Abbey sits in wooded valleys south of Dartmoor with genuine historical weight.
Churches & Chapels
Buckland Abbey
Milton Combe, Tavistock
A Cistercian abbey founded in 1278, turned into a house by the Grenvilles and bought by Sir Francis Drake in 1581. Now National Trust, near Yelverton.
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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Therefore the little river divides and leaps and tumbles foaming over the mossy granite, or creeps beneath the boulders by invisible ways.”
Also on Our DartmoorBell Tor — A huge granite rockpile with a striking chasm and boulders trapped between granite walls.
