Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
A chambered cairn 26 m by 9 m with the remains of a passage leading to a chamber and a stone 1.6 m high leaning on its neighbour, on Buttern Hill.
A chambered cairn 10 m by 6.5 m with seven stones of a chamber and passage, two forming a portal entrance, on Buttern Hill, next to a leat bank.
Powder Mills
Weathered stone foundations where Dartmoor's trees once fed furnaces for wartime gunpowder production.
Cornwood, Ivybridge
A medieval granite wayside cross near Tinpark Farm, Cornwood, once a gatepost, set up here in 1969. Also called Ridding Down Cross and Tinpark Cross.
A Grade II* listed cottage, likely medieval or early modern in origin.
“Oh, Miss, how can I ever thank 'ee? I bathed my arms same as you told me at bedtime and got right in bed and slept till nine o'clock this morning without moving. Us haven't had such a night for months.”
Who wrote this?
A Grade II* listed church house, a modest vernacular building that once served the social and administrative needs of a moorland parish.
Grade II* listed cottages with roots in domestic Dartmoor life, likely medieval or early modern in origin.
A listed stone cottage that served the practical needs of a parish churchyard, likely dating from the 17th or 18th century.
A Grade II* listed building that served as a social and meeting space for a Dartmoor community.
Rainbow - watern tor in the distance. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.”
Also on Our DartmoorManga Hill — A granite hill near the North Teign river with historical and landscape links to nearby Mangersford and Manga Rails.
