Dartmoor Heritage
Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
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Other Heritage Sites
'B' Range Firing Point (Disused)
A stark concrete relic of Cold War training on Dartmoor's open moorland, where British forces once prepared for conflict.
Hillforts & Earthworks
'F' Range Redoubt (remains)
Stark stone foundations of a Victorian military redoubt, half-buried in Dartmoor's open moorland.
Historic Buildings
"Twist" (Ruined Farmhouse)
Cudlipptown, Tavistock
A crumbling stone farmhouse deep on Dartmoor, slowly surrendering to weather and time.
Cairns & Barrows
A cairn cemetery on Long Ridge
A Bronze Age cemetery of burial cairns scattered across the high ridge.
Reaves & Field Systems
A near reave on Hingston Hill
A 350-metre length of Bronze Age reave, a boundary wall built across the open moorland northwest of Combshead Tor.
Cairns & Barrows
A round cairn on Watchet Hill
A Bronze Age cairn on Watchet Hill, a scheduled monument and remnant of Dartmoor's prehistoric past.
Historic Buildings
Abbey Gatehouse
Grade I listed gatehouse, likely medieval, standing at the threshold between monastic and secular Dartmoor.
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Grey wethers. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“A vast, sweet, diamond-twinkling freshness filled the Moor; blue shadows lay in the dewy coombs, and sun-fires gleamed along the heather ridges.”
Also on Our DartmoorWild Swimming Walks: Dartmoor and South Devon — Sophie Pierce and Matt Newbury's 2016 guide to 28 wild swimming walks across Dartmoor and the South Devon coast, the first in their Wild Swimming Walks series.
