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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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The Hanging Stone (Lee Moor)
Standing Stones & Menhirs

The Hanging Stone (Lee Moor)

Lee Moor, Plympton

A leaning prehistoric standing stone on Lee Moor, cut with the letters C B as a boundary mark, listed among Dartmoor's sheep-stealer hanging stones.

The Infirmary
Historic Buildings

The Infirmary

A Grade II* listed building that served the local community as an infirmary.

The Judge's Chair
Other Heritage Sites

The Judge's Chair

Hexworthy, Ashburton

A Bronze Age rock outcrop on Dartmoor's open moorland, shaped by ancient hands into a ceremonial or gathering place.

The Longstone, Piles Hill
Standing Stones & Menhirs

The Longstone, Piles Hill

Harford, Ivybridge

A coarse pink granite stone at the northern end of the Butterdon Hill stone row on Piles Hill, near South Brent, with an 1803 boundary stone beside it.

The Longstone, Shovel Down
Standing Stones & Menhirs

The Longstone, Shovel Down

Teigncombe, Chagford

A 3 m granite menhir on Shovel Down at the end of two stone rows and the meeting point of the Chagford, Gidleigh and Lydford parish bounds.

The Lych Way (Lich Path)
Other Heritage Sites

The Lych Way (Lich Path)

Lydford, Okehampton

The Way of the Dead: the old route across central Dartmoor from Bellever to Lydford, said to have been used to carry the dead to be buried at Lydford church. The exact line is disputed.

The Old Court House
Historic Buildings

The Old Court House

A Grade II* listed building that once served as a courthouse.

The Sheepfold
Historic Buildings

The Sheepfold

Postbridge, Chagford

Stone foundations of a moorland sheepfold, where Dartmoor's shepherds once gathered their flocks among the granite and heather.