Industrial Archaeology

Brimpts Mine (Shaft)

Monument on Dartmoor.

Brimpts Mine near Outer Huccaby Ring

Bronze Age settlements and tin mining remains on the high moor, with evidence of ancient field systems.

Cartridge and Press Rooms

Powder Mills

Industrial ruins nestled on Dartmoor where gunpowder was manufactured and pressed during the 19th century.

Charcoal / Saltpetre Works

Powder Mills

Weathered stone foundations where Dartmoor's trees once fed furnaces for wartime gunpowder production.

Ditsworthy Warren House

Sheepstor

The Grade II warren house of Dartmoor's largest rabbit warren, about 220 acres with over 50 pillow mounds, in the Plym valley.

Doetor Quarry

Lydford, Okehampton

A small quarry marked on the 1900s Ordnance Survey map on Doetor Common, beside the track about 200 m north-north-east of Doe Tor Farm. No written record of it has been found, and a pile of loose granite in the rough ground nearby does not line up with its mapped position.

Druid Mine Engine House

Ruined engine house from Dartmoor's tin-mining past, standing solitary on the open moor.

Eylesbarrow Tin Mine

Abandoned tin mine workings on the high moor, where stone structures and shallow pools mark centuries of industrial heritage.

Foxhole Mine and Doetor Brook tinworks

Foxhole Mine (Wheal Frederick) in the upper Doetor Brook: stamping mill, count house with walls 2.9 m high, dressing floor, tramway and clapper bridge, in a long alluvial tin streamwork with openworks, adits and reservoirs.