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Civil War redoubt near East Linnacombe
Grid ref: SX 5459 9191
On walking routes: West Devon Way
This scheduled monument is a redoubt, a small fortified position built during the English Civil War to hold ground and control movement across the moor. Redoubts like this one were typical of the period, designed to be quickly constructed and garrisoned by a small force. The site sits at height on Dartmoor's open landscape, which would have made it strategically valuable for observing and defending territory.
Today you will find earthworks and banks marking out the structure, visible across the moorland south east of East Linnacombe. Like many Civil War remains on Dartmoor, it tells the story of conflict that reached even into these remote uplands. The moor's slopes and vantage points shaped how people fought here, much as they have shaped settlement and movement for centuries.
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