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Deserted medieval site NW of Okehampton camp
Devon
This scheduled monument preserves the traces of a medieval village that once occupied this exposed stretch of moorland northwest of Okehampton camp. Like many upland settlements across Dartmoor, it was eventually abandoned as the climate cooled and farming became harder in the high country. Today, the site reveals itself through earthworks and scattered stone, the foundations and enclosures of houses and fields still visible to those who know how to read the landscape.
The site sits within the wider story of Dartmoor's medieval occupation, when communities pushed further onto the moor than they do today. Walking here offers a quiet encounter with how the land was once shaped by human settlement, and how that occupation has faded into grass and heather. The location itself, open and wind-swept, speaks to the resilience demanded of those who lived here.
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