Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
Teigngrace
A canal built by James Templer, linking the Haytor Granite Tramway to the tidal River Teign at Teignmouth. Granite quarried at Haytor and Holwell travelled this route, including stone for the new London Bridge completed in 1831.
A round cairn 12 m across and 0.6 m high on the summit of Great Gnats' Head, with a kerb of edge-set stones in places and a modern stone pile on top.
Belstone, Okehampton
Tucked away beneath the tors above Belstone sits Taikoo - a fascinating 1920s English country house, with a distinctly Oriental flavour.
Scheduled monument remains of a medieval Benedictine abbey in Tavistock town, founded in the 10th century.
“The only convict who really got away from Princetown and was not recaptured was last seen taking a bee-line for Fox Tor Mire.”
Who wrote this?
Tavistock
Methodist church in Tavistock offering weekly services, youth and children's groups, and community events including Alpha courses and Messy Church.
Tavistock
Our aim is to provide local people and visitors to the area with the best possible facility celebrating Tavistock’s rich history and local traditions down the centuries.
Belstone
The underground water works built in the late 1950s to take radon out of Taw Marsh water: a concrete building with skylights, sold or offered for sale in 2014, 2018 and 2023.
The Taw River tin blowing mill: a drystone building 9.5 m by 4.7 m inside with furnace stones, wheelpit, leat, reservoir, tailrace and dressing floor, where tin slag has been found.
Okehampton
A simple stone memorial to poet Ted Hughes on the open moor, marking his deep connection to Dartmoor's wild landscape.
Plate from An Exploration of Dartmoor and Its Antiquities, page 254, 1889“There was nobody to see him; all the brown moor was void with loneliness and lassitude; not a shadow, except his own, moved faster than the sun directed it.”
Also on Our DartmoorPixies Cross — A waymarked stone cross standing on open moorland, marking ancient routes across Dartmoor's high ground.
