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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Routrundle Pound
Antiquities

Routrundle Pound

A medieval livestock enclosure on Dartmoor, built to contain animals on the open moorland.

Rowden Farmhouse
Antiquities

Rowden Farmhouse

A Grade II* listed farmhouse on Dartmoor, likely dating from the medieval period or earlier, with later modifications reflecting centuries of moorland farming life.

Royal Oak Public House
Antiquities

Royal Oak Public House

Grade II* listed public house, likely Georgian or Victorian, built to serve travellers and communities on or near Dartmoor.

Heritage & Places

Ruined buildings (Roses Cottage)

Challacombe, Chagford

Roses Cottage's skeletal remains stand weathered on open moorland, a poignant reminder of Dartmoor's lost settlements.

Heritage & Places

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.

Antiquities

Ruined Mine Captain's House

Weathered stone ruins of a mine captain's house, crumbling quietly into the moorland where tin and copper were once extracted.

Heritage & Places

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
Antiquities

Sampford Manor

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

Sanders
Antiquities

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.