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Medieval Village of Challacombe
Historic Buildings

Medieval Village of Challacombe

Challacombe, Chagford

Haunting stone foundations scattered across windswept moorland, where a medieval farming community once sheltered from Dartmoor's unforgiving climate.

Middleworth farmstead near Norsworthy Bridge
Bridges & Crossings

Middleworth farmstead near Norsworthy Bridge

Middleworth farmstead above the Narrator Brook, first recorded in 1281 and lived in until the 1920s: a farmhouse 8.6 m by 7.5 m with its walls up to 1.7 m high, a barn of five rooms and a privy.

Museum of Dartmoor Life
Historic Buildings

Museum of Dartmoor Life

Okehampton

Situated in a cobbled courtyard in Okehampton, the museum exhibits a vast collection of objects spanning 5,000 years of life on Dartmoor from the Bronze Age through to the mid-20th Century.

Historic Buildings

Nut Crackers (Site of Logan Stone)

Venton, Ashburton

Scattered granite blocks on open moorland marking the site of a famous logan stone, moved centuries ago.

OP4 (ruins)
Historic Buildings

OP4 (ruins)

Okehampton

Weathered stone ruins standing alone on the open moor, a tangible remnant of human habitation in Dartmoor's sparse landscape.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“I have known many instances of people, well acquainted with certain parts of the moor, losing their way in a mist and wandering about in it for hours in the vain endeavour to find their path.”

Also on Our DartmoorHennock Showground — A historic showground nestled on the edge of Dartmoor, where rural traditions and community gatherings have shaped local life for generations.