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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Antiquities

Haytor Granite Tramway

A remarkable relic of industrial granite extraction: stone-built tracks that once carried heavy loads across the high moor.

Antiquities

Haytor Granite Tramway

Industrial stone railway carved into the granite moorland, testament to Dartmoor's quarrying heritage.

Antiquities

Haytor Granite Tramway

Industrial remnants of the granite age: stone-built inclines and trackways that carried Haytor's stone down the moor to waiting carts.

Antiquities

Haytor Granite Tramway

The stone-built remains of a 19th-century tramway cut into Dartmoor granite, engineered to haul stone from the quarries down the moorland slope.

Antiquities

Haytor Granite Tramway

A granite tramway that once carried stone from Haytor's quarries across the open moor, now a walk through industrial heritage.

Antiquities

Haytor Granite Tramway (Disused)

Remnants of a 19th-century granite tramway carved across high moorland, where stone once rolled downhill to feed Victorian industry.

Hele Cross
Antiquities

Hele Cross

A medieval wayside cross standing alone on the open moor south east of Wormhill, a marker of routes and boundaries across Dartmoor.

Heritage & Places

Hembury Castle Site

Mill Leat, Buckfastleigh

Iron Age hilltop fort with sweeping views across Dartmoor, where ancient ramparts still command the moorland skyline.