Skip to content

← Browse Prehistoric Settlements · Browse the directory

Prehistoric Settlements

Enclosure

Grid ref: SX 6672 6616 Find this on the Map Reference Finder

On walking routes: Abbot's Way, Two Moors Way

  • Period: Bronze Age
Share

Contact us if you have information about this listing

Go deeper with Dartefacts

Dartefacts is a database of Dartmoor sites with far more close-up detail than we can show here, and it is the best place to go deeper. Dartefacts is free to use, and nobody has to pay to look things up. If you want more, a yearly subscription adds 10-figure grid references, map zoom down to 1:25,000 and lists to tick off the places you have visited, and it helps keep the site going. We would encourage you to subscribe.

Thoughts

Be the first to share a thought about Enclosure.

Share a thought
A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“the country around as far as the eye extends is one uneven barren and dreary waste, not a tree Shrub or scarce a plant is seen for many miles around, here and there appears a miserable thatched Cottage whose outward appearance bespeaks the misery and poverty within,”

Anonymous American prisoner of war (copied into the journal of Joseph Valpey Jr.), Journal of Joseph Valpey, jr., of Salem, November, 1813-April, 1815, with other papers relating to his experience in Dartmoor prison, 1922

Also on Our DartmoorBellever Tor — A conspicuous tor near Postbridge in the middle of the moor, called the true centre of Dartmoor by Baring-Gould, with kistvaens on its slopes and a trig point.

Dartmoor quiz

Which Dartmoor place has also been known as "Lookout Tor and Tor Royal"?

South Hessary Tor. The tor is also known as Lookout Tor and Tor Royal, and it offers good views towards Sheepstor and Longaford Tor.

Worth a visit

Know another Dartmoor place, tor or landmark we should include? Suggest a listing, it is free.

Suggest a listing