Tin mines, blowing houses, tramways and quarries - the moor's industrial past.
An alluvial tin streamwork at the foot of the River Lyd valley in Lydford Woods, with parallel spoil dumps that show several phases of working, bounded on the north by the Bridestowe and Brentor parish boundary bank.
“I be mazed 'bout blue." ... "Butter be mazed twice a year, they say" ... "It un't going to bittle." ... "Do it vitty, now.”
Which book is this from?
Remnants of tin mining activity on the open moor, where shallow workings scar the granite landscape.
A quarter-section of a granite pound-stone, an old apple crusher, on Belstone Common close to Tors End.
A Grade II listed watermill on the River Lew, first mentioned in 1268, rebuilt in 1565 and mostly 17th century, with an overshot wheel that still drives a circular saw.
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Dartmoor's biggest tin mining complex: two mines either side of the Redwater valley, worked together from 1845 until 1882 and again to 1913.
A largely buried tin mill with a rectangular building, wheel pit, leat and dressing floor near the source of the West Webburn, recorded before 1556.
Ruined tin smelting works tucked into Dartmoor's moorland, where 18th-century industry shaped the landscape.
Remains of a tin-streaming mill and blowing house on the edge of Dartmoor.
Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 236, 1900“In the afternoon, in service time, there happened a very great darkness... a ball of fire came in likewise at the window, and passed through the church... There were in all four persons killed, and sixty-two hurt...”
Also on Our DartmoorThe Three Brothers — The three ageing Baskerville brothers, cheerful farmer Vivian, austere and religious Humphrey, and the popular publican Nathan, and the younger generation rising around them.
