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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Ruined Farmhouse
Historic Buildings

Ruined Farmhouse

Poole Cottages, Moretonhampstead

Stone foundations and crumbling walls mark a farm abandoned to Dartmoor's exposed uplands, its history written in weathered granite.

Other Heritage Sites

Rushford Tower

Sandy Park, Chagford

A striking stone tower standing sentinel on the open moor, offering glimpses into Dartmoor's industrial and defensive past.

Sampford Manor
Historic Buildings

Sampford Manor

A Grade II* listed manor house with attached barn and front wall, standing in the Dartmoor landscape.

Sanders
Historic Buildings

Sanders

A Grade I listed building on Dartmoor, Sanders is a surviving example of moorland domestic architecture from the medieval or early post-medieval period.

Sanduck Cross
Crosses

Sanduck Cross

Barnecourt, Moretonhampstead

A wayside cross standing beside a minor road near Sanduck Farm on the northern moor.

Saxon Well
Holy Wells & Springs

Saxon Well

Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Ashburton

A modest stone well hidden in the moorland, marking centuries of water-seeking on Dartmoor's high ground.

Scorhill Stone Circle
Stone Circles

Scorhill Stone Circle

Gidleigh, Chagford

A Bronze Age stone circle standing among open moorland.

Sea Vixen crash site, Flat Tor Pan
Other Heritage Sites

Sea Vixen crash site, Flat Tor Pan

Chagford

Where Sea Vixen XN648 of 766 Naval Air Squadron crashed on 31 May 1965 after a spin from 28,000 ft. Both crew ejected and survived. The crater is now a pond among the Dartmoor Mires peat restoration works.