Dartmoor Heritage
Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
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Other Heritage Sites
D-Day
Buckfastleigh
A stark memorial on Dartmoor's open moorland honouring those who trained here for the D-Day landings.
Dartmoor quiz
“Therefore the little river divides and leaps and tumbles foaming over the mossy granite, or creeps beneath the boulders by invisible ways.”
Who wrote this?
Research & Academia
Dartmoor Exploration Committee
The Devonshire Association committee that dug, surveyed and re-erected Dartmoor's hut circles, stone rows and cairns from 1893, with eleven reports by 1906 and a twelfth in 1935.
Walking & Hiking
Dartmoor's Daughter - Emma Cunis
After a 20 year global business career living in New York, Hong Kong, London, and Australia, Emma returned home to Devon to recover her health. Reconnecting with her family’s love and guiding history on Dartmoor, she qualified as a Hill & Moorland Leader (HML) and founded ‘Dartmoor’s Daughter’.
Other Heritage Sites
Devil's Bridge
Princetown, Yelverton
A small road bridge over the infant River Meavy on the B3212 near Princetown, hardly recognisable as a bridge, with a Bronze Age settlement landscape around it.
Charities
Devon Historic Churches Trust
Bovey Tracey
Devon has one of the best collections of churches in the UK. The Trust aims to keep it that way, with grants, advice and support.
Prehistoric Settlements
Dewerstone Hill enclosures
Dewerstone Hill: a 220 m by 170 m enclosure cutting off a promontory with two rubble walls, taken for a Neolithic hilltop enclosure, and a smaller Bronze Age enclosure and two hut circles inside it.
Milestones & Boundary Markers
Direction Post
Venton, Ashburton
A granite guidestone at Hemsworthy Gate Crossroads, marking routes across the open moor.
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Arms tor closeup. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“He listened, and distinctly heard one, in a louder tone than the rest, exclaim, "The oven's hot!" "Bake me a cake, then," instantly cried the hungry ploughman.”
Also on Our DartmoorTaw River tin blowing mill near Tawcroft — The Taw River tin blowing mill: a drystone building 9.5 m by 4.7 m inside with furnace stones, wheelpit, leat, reservoir, tailrace and dressing floor, where tin slag has been found.
