Tin mines, blowing houses, tramways and quarries - the moor's industrial past.
Crumbling stone foundations of a medieval tin-smelting works, hidden among Dartmoor's high moorland.
“The peat glowed as though it were red-hot, and night brooded on the eastern face of every hill.”
Who wrote this?
Scheduled monument combining tin extraction workings, processing mill and post-medieval farm buildings on Dartmoor's moorland edge.
A small tinners' building, a rectangle 5 m by 2.3 m in two rooms, beside the Brim Brook and West Okement River.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“the grand open moor stretching away for miles in sight of all working outside in the garden or on the moor seems to beckon and point plainly to freedom.”
Also on Our DartmoorChurch Cottage — A Grade II* listed cottage, likely medieval or early modern in origin.
