Tin mines, blowing houses, tramways and quarries - the moor's industrial past.
Lee Moor, Shaugh Prior
China clay pits above the Plym valley, worked since the 1820s-30s: the 1858 tramway, an old mine leat, and works such as Whitehill Yeo and Cholwichtown.
East Ogwell, Newton Abbot
Weathered stone kilns where limestone was burned to create quicklime, leaving industrial traces across the open moor.
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Remnants of tin and copper extraction scattered across the moorland.
Remnants of tin and copper extraction scarring the high moor, where Victorian enterprise left its mark on the granite landscape.
Princetown
A horse-drawn granite tramway opened in 1823, running about 25 miles from the Foggintor and King's Tor quarries to a wharf near Plymouth. Its upper section was later reused by the steam-worked Princetown Railway from 1883.
Industrial ruins tucked into a wooded valley, where gunpowder was once manufactured for Britain's wars.
Crumbling stone ruins of 19th-century gunpowder mills hidden in a steep wooded valley on Dartmoor's industrial edge.
Scattered granite ruins of a 19th-century tin mine, now reclaimed by heather and bilberry on open moorland.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“There was nobody to see him; all the brown moor was void with loneliness and lassitude; not a shadow, except his own, moved faster than the sun directed it.”
Also on Our DartmoorCross at north corner of crossroads about near Dockwell Farmhouse — A wayside cross marking the north corner of a crossroads deep in Dartmoor's moorland landscape.
