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Industrial Archaeology

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

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Tinworks, Stanlake
Antiquities

Tinworks, Stanlake

Scheduled Monument with tin workings and Bronze Age remains scattered across the Meavy valley floor and tor slopes.

Two hut circles near Raddick Hill
Antiquities

Two hut circles near Raddick Hill

Bronze Age hut circles and field boundaries on the open moor west of Raddick Hill, with a length of the historic Devonport Leat.

Heritage & Places

Wheal Betsy

Kingsett, Tavistock

The dramatic stone ruins of a tin mine engine house stand sentinel on the open moor, a monument to Dartmoor's industrial past.

Heritage & Places

Wheal Jewell

Horndon, Tavistock

Crumbling stone ruins of a 19th-century tin mine nestled in Dartmoor's moorland, a haunting reminder of the region's industrial past.

Wheal Katherine near Plym Ford
Antiquities

Wheal Katherine near Plym Ford

Remains of a tin mine shaft and workings on the western edge of Eylesbarrow, part of Dartmoor's industrial heritage.

Antiquities

Whiteworks Tin Mine

Whiteworks Tin Mine: haunting stone structures and deep shafts where tin miners once laboured on the high moor.