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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Antiquities

Milestone, SX 516 827

Lane End, Tavistock

A roadside milestone marking distance and direction on the open moor, likely dating from the turnpike era.

Antiquities

Milestone, SX 525795

Cudlipptown, Tavistock

A roadside milestone marking distance on the moor, likely from the 18th or 19th century.

Antiquities

Milestone, SX 529 752

Moortown, Tavistock

A roadside milestone marking distance on the old routes crossing Dartmoor's high moorland.

Antiquities

Milestone, SX 544 750

Merrivale, Tavistock

A wayside milestone marking distance on an old route across the moor, now a modest but enduring trace of Dartmoor's transport history.

Antiquities

Milestone, SX 678 813

Challacombe, Chagford

A weathered roadside milestone marking distance on the high moor, typical of routes crossing Dartmoor from the 18th or 19th century.

Antiquities

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
Heritage & Places

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.

Heritage & Places

No. 2 Generator (disused)

Belstone, Okehampton

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