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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Historic Buildings

Nut Crackers (Site of Logan Stone)

Venton, Ashburton

Scattered granite blocks on open moorland marking the site of a famous logan stone, moved centuries ago.

Dartmoor quiz
“The peat glowed as though it were red-hot, and night brooded on the eastern face of every hill.”

Who wrote this?

Eden Phillpotts. From Children of the Mist (1899).

Worth a visit
Okehampton Range Observation Post 16
Other Heritage Sites

Okehampton Range Observation Post 16

Observation Post 16 and its target butts, 737 m north-east of the summit of Okement Hill: a concrete shelter under a mound 3.9 m high and two shell-damaged butts, in an area of craters.

Okehampton Range Observation Post 6
Other Heritage Sites

Okehampton Range Observation Post 6

Observation Post 6 and the incline target carrier railway of about 1895 on East Mill Tor: a turf-covered concrete-lined shelter 6.4 m by 2.5 m and a curving cutting of about 20-inch gauge, ending at Skit Bottom.