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Dartmoor Heritage

Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.

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'B' Range Firing Point (Disused)
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.

"Twist" (Ruined Farmhouse)
Historic Buildings

"Twist" (Ruined Farmhouse)

Cudlipptown, Tavistock

A crumbling stone farmhouse deep on Dartmoor, slowly surrendering to weather and time.

Abbey Gatehouse
Historic Buildings

Abbey Gatehouse

Grade I listed gatehouse, likely medieval, standing at the threshold between monastic and secular Dartmoor.

Addiscott Cross
Crosses

Addiscott Cross

East Week, Chagford

A granite wayside cross standing on the open moor, likely medieval in origin, marking an ancient route across Dartmoor.

Addislade
Historic Buildings

Addislade

A Grade II* listed building on the open moor, likely a historic farmstead or smallholding with deep roots in Dartmoor's settlement pattern.

A Book of Dartmoor, page 91Plate from A Book of Dartmoor, page 91, 1900

“When us is married, then, mind y', Peter, I'm not going to have that silly brother of yourn in the house with me." "Indeed!" was Peter's retort; "then into my house *you* shall never come.”

Also on Our DartmoorDown Tor Pound — Down Tor Pound: a circular enclosure 47 m across with a double-faced rubble wall 2.5 m wide and an entrance marked by a slab through the wall, near a cairn and stone row.