Dartmoor Heritage

Powder Mills

Industrial ruins tucked into a wooded valley, where gunpowder was once manufactured for Britain's wars.

Prehistoric coaxial field system

Prehistoric field systems and cairns on Peek Hill, with later historic enclosure and RAF remains.

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks

A free guide to Dartmoor's prehistoric settlements, stone rows, circles and cists, with walks planned round public transport, site tables, GPS data and scans of the old exploration reports.

Preston Farmhouse

A Grade II* listed farmhouse on the edge of Dartmoor, built in the medieval or early modern period and substantially altered over centuries.

Prestonbury Castle (fort)

Iron Age fort crowning a Dartmoor ridge, its ramparts still defining the moorland skyline after two millennia.

Prestonbury Castle (hillfort)

A small hillfort on Prestonbury Common above the Teign, with three enclosures: an inner one 150 m by 93 m, a middle one 100 m by 60 m and a wide outer one 280 m by 150 m.

Pridhamsleigh Manor Farm House

Grade II* listed farmhouse on the northern edge of Dartmoor, likely medieval in origin with later modifications.

Princep's Folly

Gidleigh

The roofless octagonal tower that remains of a house built on Gidleigh Tor in 1848 for Thomas Levett Princep, who died before he could live in it.

Pumping Mount (Ruins)

Challacombe, Chagford

Crumbling stone ruins of a Victorian pumping station deep on the open moor, a relic of Dartmoor's industrial past.