Historic Buildings
Buddles
Challacombe, Chagford
Atmospheric remains of a tin mine on open moorland, where industrial heritage merges with wild Dartmoor landscape.
Historic Buildings
Listed buildings and historic structures - churches, farmhouses, bridges, mills and the like.
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Dartmoor quiz
“The only signs of life are the furry inhabitants of the warren, and, perchance, a herd of Dartmoor ponies, wild as the country over which they roam, and a few sheep or cattle grazing on the slopes.”
Who wrote this?
Historic Buildings
Card House
A Grade II* listed building on Dartmoor, likely dating from the 17th or 18th century, named for its distinctive card-house construction.
Historic Buildings
Church Cottage
A Grade II* listed cottage, likely medieval or early modern in origin.
Historic Buildings
Church House
A Grade II* listed church house, a modest vernacular building that once served the social and administrative needs of a moorland parish.
Historic Buildings
Church House Cottages
Grade II* listed cottages with roots in domestic Dartmoor life, likely medieval or early modern in origin.
Historic Buildings
Church House Sexton's Cottage
A listed stone cottage that served the practical needs of a parish churchyard, likely dating from the 17th or 18th century.
Historic Buildings
Church Rooms
A Grade II* listed building that served as a social and meeting space for a Dartmoor community.
Bridges & Crossings
Clapper Bridge
Stone slabs spanning a moorland stream, a bridge built to last centuries on the open moor.
Historic Buildings
Cleave Farm (Ruin)
Middlecott, Chagford
Scattered stone foundations of a moorland farm, abandoned to the wind and weather on high Dartmoor.
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Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 150, 1900“Look here, my good fellows," he cried. "I know who you be. You be them two runaways from Princetown, and I'll give you all I've got, clothes and all, if only you won't murder me.”
Also on Our DartmoorEnclosure and hut circle on Little Gnats' Head — An enclosure with a stone hut circle 6 m across on the steep west slope of Little Gnats' Head above the Plym, partly buried under deep peat.
