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Industrial Archaeology

Tin mines, blowing houses, tramways and quarries - the moor's industrial past.

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Haytor Granite Tramway (Disused)

Remnants of a 19th-century granite tramway carved across high moorland, where stone once rolled downhill to feed Victorian industry.

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Hooten Wheals (Mine dis)

Remnants of tin mining on the open moor, where Victorian enterprise left stone foundations and spoil heaps across the granite landscape.

Heritage & Places

Lime Kilns

East Ogwell, Newton Abbot

Weathered stone kilns where limestone was burned to create quicklime, leaving industrial traces across the open moor.

Medieval strip fields
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Medieval strip fields

Scheduled Monument on Hamel Down's western slopes with layers of medieval, tin-working and prehistoric settlement remains.

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Mine (dis)

Remnants of tin and copper extraction scattered across the moorland, revealing how miners shaped Dartmoor's landscape centuries ago.

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Mine (dis)

Remnants of tin and copper extraction scarring the high moor, where Victorian enterprise left its mark on the granite landscape.

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Mine (dis)

Abandoned tin and copper workings nestled in Dartmoor's upland landscape, where Victorian enterprise left its mark on the granite.

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Powder Mills

Industrial ruins tucked into a wooded valley, where gunpowder was once manufactured for Britain's wars.

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Powder Mills

Crumbling stone ruins of 19th-century gunpowder mills hidden in a steep wooded valley on Dartmoor's industrial edge.