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

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Belstone Village Stocks
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Belstone Village Stocks

Belstone

A sturdy stone stocks stand in Belstone village, a sobering reminder of medieval justice on the edge of Dartmoor.

Historic Buildings

Berry Pomeroy Castle

Berry Pomeroy, Totnes

A late 15th-century castle and Tudor mansion ruin near Totnes, built by the Pomeroy family and later extended by the Seymours, now cared for by English Heritage and celebrated for its ghost legends.

Betsy Grimbal's Tower
Historic Buildings

Betsy Grimbal's Tower

A Grade I listed tower adjoining the former vicarage, a distinctive landmark on Dartmoor's slopes.

Bishops House
Historic Buildings

Bishops House

Medieval listed building on Dartmoor. Historic England list entry 1147239.

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

Which Dartmoor tor is this?

Brat Tor. A granite tor with a prominent cross on its summit, visible from the A386 road.

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Bleak House (Ruin)
Historic Buildings

Bleak House (Ruin)

A stone ruin on Dartmoor, this long abandoned house stands as a haunting reminder of industrial life on the moor.

Blowing mill near Merrivale Bridge
Industrial Archaeology

Blowing mill near Merrivale Bridge

Scheduled Monument combining a blowing mill and vermin trap, likely medieval or early modern, northeast of Merrivale Bridge.

Other Heritage Sites

Boringdon Arch

Colebrook Village, Plympton

A curious stone arch standing alone on Dartmoor, a quirky monument to 18th-century whimsy among the open moor.

Bowden Farmhouse
Historic Buildings

Bowden Farmhouse

A Grade II* listed farmhouse on Dartmoor, likely medieval in origin with later additions.

Dartmoor Illustrated, page 88Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 88, 1900

“I once heard a woman tell one of her daughters, in a Dartmoor cottage, " to log the child's cradle." There, thought I, is a British word ; log means to rock, hence logging, or logan stone.”

Also on Our DartmoorEight pillow mounds near Little Trowlesworthy Tor — Eight pillow mounds, a vermin trap and a series of ditches on the north slope of Little Trowlesworthy Tor, in two areas of protection.