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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Milestone, SX 7690 7083
Milestones & Boundary Markers

Milestone, SX 7690 7083

Dolbeare, Ashburton

A granite milestone marking the turnpike roads that crossed Dartmoor in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Museum of Dartmoor Life
Historic Buildings

Museum of Dartmoor Life

Okehampton

Situated in a cobbled courtyard in Okehampton, the museum exhibits a vast collection of objects spanning 5,000 years of life on Dartmoor from the Bronze Age through to the mid-20th Century.

Dartmoor quiz

Which Dartmoor place has also been known as "the Plymouth Leat"?

Drake's Leat. Drake's Leat, also called the Plymouth Leat, is a watercourse about 17.5 miles (28.2 km) long that carried water from the River Meavy on Dartmoor to Plymouth .

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Nattor Down great enclosure and hut circles
Prehistoric Settlements

Nattor Down great enclosure and hut circles

A rubble boundary bank 1,150 m long enclosing a huge stock pound, with thirteen hut circles and a round cairn, on the west slope of Nattor Down and Hamlyn's Newtake.

No. 2 Generator (disused)
Other Heritage Sites

No. 2 Generator (disused)

Belstone, Okehampton

A stark concrete generator building from Dartmoor's industrial past, now silent among the moorland.