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Listed buildings and historic structures - churches, farmhouses, bridges, mills and the like.

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Lambert Farmhouse
Historic Buildings

Lambert Farmhouse

A Grade II* listed farmhouse on the edge of Dartmoor, built in the medieval or early modern period and still embedded in the working landscape.

Leather Tor Bridge
Bridges & Crossings

Leather Tor Bridge

Sheepstor, Tavistock

A modest stone bridge crossing moorland water, testament to centuries of travel across Dartmoor's remote terrain.

Leather Tor Farm
Historic Buildings

Leather Tor Farm

Sheepstor, Tavistock

Weathered stone ruins of a moorland farm, slowly being reclaimed by Dartmoor's granite and heather.

Dartmoor quiz
A photograph of a place on Dartmoor; the question asks which
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

Which Dartmoor place is this?

Butterdon Hill (Moretonhampstead). Butterdon Hill, 351 m, in north-east Dartmoor north of Moretonhampstead: a 2.3 m granite standing stone on its west side and cairns on the summit.

Worth a visit
Historic Buildings

Lewdowns Cottages (Ruins)

Barnecourt, Moretonhampstead

Scattered stone foundations revealing how families once lived on the high moor, now returning to the landscape.

Ley Farmhouse
Historic Buildings

Ley Farmhouse

A Grade II* listed farmhouse, likely medieval in origin, standing in the Dartmoor landscape as evidence of long settlement and land use.

Lizwell Bridge
Bridges & Crossings

Lizwell Bridge

A low two-arched bridge of dressed granite over the East Webburn, the arches meeting on an islet; a gate pillar on the north side suggests it was once gated.

Longstone Manor (Medieval Ruin)
Standing Stones & Menhirs

Longstone Manor (Medieval Ruin)

Sheepstor, Tavistock

Haunting remains of a medieval manor house scattered across open moorland, revealing centuries of occupation and abandonment.

Longstone Manor House, Burrator
Standing Stones & Menhirs

Longstone Manor House, Burrator

The remains of Longstone Manor House on a promontory in Burrator Reservoir: an early 17th-century house 14.5 m by 6.5 m with walls up to 4 m high, a sunken cobbled track, outbuildings under the waterline and a granite wind strew dated 1637.

Lower Merripit Farmhouse
Historic Buildings

Lower Merripit Farmhouse

A Grade II* listed farmhouse on the edge of Dartmoor, likely medieval in origin with later modifications.