Crosses
Goldsmith's Cross
Goldsmith's Cross: a repaired Latin cross, 0.9 m high, set in a boulder beside Foxtor Mires and re-erected in 1903.
Dartmoor Heritage
Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
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Historic Buildings
Goosey Creep
Kingsett, Tavistock
Mysterious stone ruins tucked into Dartmoor's moorland, their purpose still whispered about by those who venture out to find them.
Crosses
Granite Cross
A weathered granite cross standing alone on the open moor, its origins lost to time but its presence unmistakable.
Historic Buildings
Great Bidlake
A Grade II* listed farmhouse on the high moor, likely medieval or early post-medieval in origin.
Historic Buildings
Great Fulford House
Cheriton Bishop, Moretonhampstead
A substantial stone house standing in the moorland landscape, with roots reaching back through centuries of Dartmoor life.
Dartmoor quiz
“The only signs of life are the furry inhabitants of the warren, and, perchance, a herd of Dartmoor ponies, wild as the country over which they roam, and a few sheep or cattle grazing on the slopes.”
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Historic Buildings
Great Houndtor Farmhouse
A Grade II* listed farmhouse on the high moor, likely medieval in origin.
Crosses
Green Lane Cross
A medieval cross head, arms and top 0.57 m wide, cemented on a modern shaft in an old socket stone, restored in 1934, at the north-west end of Whitchurch Down.
Stone Circles
Grey Wethers
Twin Bronze Age stone circles sitting on high moorland north of Postbridge, around 5,000 years old.
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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“the grand open moor stretching away for miles in sight of all working outside in the garden or on the moor seems to beckon and point plainly to freedom.”
Also on Our DartmoorPillow mound near Ditsworthy Warren House — A raised earthwork forming part of the medieval rabbit warren system at Hentor, south east of Ditsworthy Warren House.
