Dartmoor Heritage
Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
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Prehistoric Settlements
Broadun Ring, Hartland Tor
Broadun Ring: an oval enclosure 119 m by 79 m with a boulder-faced wall up to 6 m wide, at least 13 hut circles (ten dug in 1893), stone-splitting pits and a later field wall, near Hartland Tor.
Did you know?
A Dartmoor fact about Wigford Down cross
Historic Buildings
Brook Manor House
A Grade II* listed house on the edge of Dartmoor, likely dating from the medieval or early modern period.
Historic Buildings
Brown's House
Powder Mills, Chagford
Weathered stone ruins of a moorland dwelling, revealing how people once lived on Dartmoor's exposed granite landscape.
Churches & Chapels
Buckfast Abbey North Gate
Buckfast Abbey's north gate and part of its outer court: the 12th-century gate arch, buried guesthouse and guest hall remains, and the abbey's history from before 1018 to the Dissolution and 1882.
Historic Buildings
Buckfast Abbey, Main Block
The substantial stone core of Buckfast Abbey, a medieval monastic building with later modifications.
Churches & Chapels
Buckland Abbey
Milton Combe, Tavistock
A Tudor monastery turned private home, Buckland Abbey sits in wooded valleys south of Dartmoor with genuine historical weight.
Churches & Chapels
Buckland Abbey
Milton Combe, Tavistock
A Cistercian abbey founded in 1278, turned into a house by the Grenvilles and bought by Sir Francis Drake in 1581. Now National Trust, near Yelverton.
Historic Buildings
Buddles
Challacombe, Chagford
Atmospheric remains of a tin mine on open moorland, where industrial heritage merges with wild Dartmoor landscape.
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Plate from An Exploration of Dartmoor and Its Antiquities, page 174, 1889“You caan't fill un even now in the drouth, an' come autumn an' rain 't will all be bog again.”
Also on Our DartmoorStone alignment near Great Trowlesworthy Tor — Scheduled Monument combining Bronze Age stone alignment, cairn and settlement with later medieval structures on open moorland.
