Dartmoor Heritage
Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
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Industrial Archaeology
Blowing houses, Week Ford
A stamping mill and a blowing house on the O Brook near its junction with the West Dart, first recorded as Wikeford Mills in 1608.
Industrial Archaeology
Blowing Mill at Outer Down
Remains of a tin mill powered by water on the open moor, a relic of Dartmoor's mining heritage.
Industrial Archaeology
Blowing mill near Merrivale Bridge
Scheduled Monument combining a blowing mill and vermin trap, likely medieval or early modern, northeast of Merrivale Bridge.
Other Heritage Sites
Boringdon Arch
Colebrook Village, Plympton
A curious stone arch standing alone on Dartmoor, a quirky monument to 18th-century whimsy among the open moor.
Milestones & Boundary Markers
Boundary Stone near The Haytor Road
Smallacombe, Bovey Tracey
A boundary stone marking the western edge of a parish on Dartmoor's high moorland, northwest of Haytor Road.
Historic Buildings
Bowden Farmhouse
A Grade II* listed farmhouse on Dartmoor, likely medieval in origin with later additions.
Historic Buildings
Bowden Farmhouse
A Grade II* listed farmhouse, likely medieval in origin, standing on Dartmoor's moorland fringe.
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Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 100, 1900“The only convict who really got away from Princetown and was not recaptured was last seen taking a bee-line for Fox Tor Mire.”
Also on Our DartmoorStone cist near Yealm Steps — A small stone cist, 0.68 m by 0.22 m, with upright slabs up to 0.6 m high, on the eastern edge of a large hut circle settlement above the Yealm.
