Pumping Mount (Ruins)
Challacombe, Chagford
Crumbling stone ruins of a Victorian pumping station deep on the open moor, a relic of Dartmoor's industrial past.
Listed buildings and historic structures - churches, farmhouses, bridges, mills and the like.
Challacombe, Chagford
Crumbling stone ruins of a Victorian pumping station deep on the open moor, a relic of Dartmoor's industrial past.
Old books sometimes spell "Sheeps Tor" differently. Which of these is one of those spellings?
A Grade II* listed farmhouse on Dartmoor, likely dating from the medieval period or earlier, with later modifications reflecting centuries of moorland farming life.
Grade II* listed public house, likely Georgian or Victorian, built to serve travellers and communities on or near Dartmoor.
Challacombe, Chagford
Roses Cottage's skeletal remains stand weathered on open moorland, a poignant reminder of Dartmoor's lost settlements.
Poole Cottages, Moretonhampstead
Stone foundations and crumbling walls mark a farm abandoned to Dartmoor's exposed uplands, its history written in weathered granite.
Sandy Park, Chagford
A striking stone tower standing sentinel on the open moor, offering glimpses into Dartmoor's industrial and defensive past.
A Grade II* listed manor house with attached barn and front wall, standing in the Dartmoor landscape.
A Grade I listed building on Dartmoor, Sanders is a surviving example of moorland domestic architecture from the medieval or early post-medieval period.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“You caan't fill un even now in the drouth, an' come autumn an' rain 't will all be bog again.”
Also on Our DartmoorSkaigh Warren and Ivy Tor settlements — Skaigh Warren on the north slope of Cosdon Hill: at least 21 pillow mounds, a warreners' shelter, ridge and furrow, two hut circle settlements and two cairnfields, one of 28 mounds.