Dartmoor Heritage

Stonetor Hill Cairn Circle

Bronze Age stone circle crowning a windswept Dartmoor hilltop, its weathered boulders marking ancient ritual or gathering ground.

Tavistock Abbey

Scheduled monument remains of a medieval Benedictine abbey in Tavistock town, founded in the 10th century.

Tavistock Museum

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.

Taw River tin blowing mill near Tawcroft

Remains of a tin processing mill on the Taw River, where ore was crushed and separated during Dartmoor's mining era.

Ted Hughes Memorial Stone

Okehampton

A simple stone memorial to poet Ted Hughes on the open moor, marking his deep connection to Dartmoor's wild landscape.

Teignhead Farm (Ruins)

Chagford

Weathered stone ruins of a moorland farm, slowly being reclaimed by Dartmoor's granite-strewn landscape.

Ten hut circles, Watern Oke

Ten Bronze Age hut circles clustered at Watern Oke, traces of an open settlement on the high moor.

The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

Exeter

Bill Douglas was a British filmmaker and collector renowned by critics and fans as having one of the most unique, personal and poetic visions in British cinema history.

The Blacksmiths Shop (Tinners Moulds)

Atmospheric ruins of a tinworker's smithy nestled on open moorland, where metal was shaped and tools forged for the mines below.