Industrial Archaeology

Blowing house at Dry Lake

A small drystone tin mill, 5.5 m by 3.8 m inside, terraced into the north bank of Dry Lake near the Erme.

Blowing house at Hook Lake

A small drystone tin mill, 6.3 m by 3.8 m inside, just north of where Hook Lake joins the Erme, probably a blowing mill.

Blowing house near Yealm Steps

A blowing mill, 8.8 m by 3.1 m inside, on the west bank of the Yealm at the foot of Penn Moor, with its furnace recess and two mould stones.

Blowing house on Down Ridge

Remains of a tin smelting works on Down Ridge.

Blowing houses, Week Ford

A stamping mill and a blowing house on the O Brook near its junction with the West Dart, first recorded as Wikeford Mills in 1608.

Blowing Mill at Outer Down

Remains of a tin mill powered by water on the open moor, a relic of Dartmoor's mining heritage.

Blowing mill near Merrivale Bridge

Scheduled Monument combining a blowing mill and vermin trap, likely medieval or early modern, northeast of Merrivale Bridge.

Bovey Pottery Leat

Medieval monument on Dartmoor.

Brat Tor Stone Workings

Lydford, Okehampton

Small stone workings on the south-west slope of Brat Tor, below Widgery Cross: heaps of broken granite and blocks with the notches left by splitting stone with tare and feather. It is not marked as a quarry on the old maps and we have found no written record of one.