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

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Middleworth farmstead near Norsworthy Bridge
Bridges & Crossings

Middleworth farmstead near Norsworthy Bridge

Middleworth farmstead above the Narrator Brook, first recorded in 1281 and lived in until the 1920s: a farmhouse 8.6 m by 7.5 m with its walls up to 1.7 m high, a barn of five rooms and a privy.

Milestone, SX 490 778
Milestones & Boundary Markers

Milestone, SX 490 778

Mary Tavy, Tavistock

A stone milestone marking distances on the old routes crossing Dartmoor, likely from the 18th or 19th century.

Milestone, SX 503 768
Milestones & Boundary Markers

Milestone, SX 503 768

Peter Tavy, Tavistock

A stone milestone marking a route across the open moor, likely from the 18th or 19th century.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“I was going to a little world, isolated, away from the madding crowd, and with miles of wild moorland, and rushing streams, which whispered, the former of snipe, plover and woodcock, the latter of salmon and trout.”

Also on Our DartmoorWatern Oke: small hut circle — A small hut circle 3.2 m across inside, with a wall 1.1 m wide and 0.4 m high, at Watern Oke; the exploration committee did not dig or survey it.