Industrial Archaeology
Tin mines, blowing houses, tramways and quarries - the moor's industrial past.
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Industrial Archaeology
Tin blowing mill, Teignhead Farm
A tin blowing mill 13.6 m long on the North Teign below Teignhead Farm, with its furnace stones, wheelpit and two mould stones for the molten tin.
Industrial Archaeology
Tin Workings
Nattor
Medieval and later tin workings scarring the moorland, revealing centuries of mining that shaped Dartmoor's landscape and economy.
Other Heritage Sites
Tinners Hut
A weathered stone shelter hidden in Dartmoor's high moorland, built by tin miners centuries ago.
Other Heritage Sites
Tinners Works
Scattered stone structures and shallow workings reveal where tinners once extracted wealth from Dartmoor's granite moorland.
Dartmoor quiz
“Therefore the little river divides and leaps and tumbles foaming over the mossy granite, or creeps beneath the boulders by invisible ways.”
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Historic Buildings
Tinners' beehive hut, Lade Hill Brook
A corbelled 'beehive' hut 2.7 m by 2 m inside with walls 0.8 m wide and 1.2 m high, built in a disused streamwork tye in the Lade Hill Brook valley.
Bridges & Crossings
Tinners' cache near Norsworthy Bridge
A scheduled monument marking a cache site used by tin miners working the high moor north east of Norsworthy Bridge.
Historic Buildings
Tinners' shelter, Black Ridge Brook
A tinners' shelter 4.9 m by 3.4 m inside with walls up to 1.1 m high and a roughly circular outer wall, beside the Black Ridge Brook.
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