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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Historic Buildings

Vinneylake (ruins)

Sheepstor, Tavistock

Crumbling stone foundations scattered across open moorland, revealing traces of a lost settlement on Dartmoor's high ground.

Walkhampton Church House cross
Crosses

Walkhampton Church House cross

A 1.63 m medieval cross shaft set in a socket stone beside Walkhampton Church House, brought together in a 1984 restoration and given a new head in the 1990s.

Dartmoor quiz
A photograph of a place on Dartmoor; the question asks which
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

Which Dartmoor tor is this?

Kings Tor. A prominent granite tor with two rock basins, overlooking the Walkham Valley and the Princetown Railway.

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Wallabrook Clapper Bridge
Bridges & Crossings

Wallabrook Clapper Bridge

Gidleigh, Chagford

A single-slab granite clapper bridge over the Walla Brook on Gidleigh Common, just above the brook's meeting with the North Teign River. Grade II listed.

Walls near Walreddon Manor
Historic Buildings

Walls near Walreddon Manor

Historic walls and gate-piers attached to Walreddon Manor, a Grade II* listed survival of agricultural landscape development.

Walreddon Manor
Historic Buildings

Walreddon Manor

A Grade I listed manor house on the edge of Dartmoor, likely medieval in origin with later additions.

Warne's Kitchen
Historic Buildings

Warne's Kitchen

A Grade II* listed kitchen building, likely medieval or early modern in origin, standing on the moor landscape.

Historic Buildings

Warrens

Two Bridges

Fragmentary stone ruins of a medieval warren-keeper's settlement scattered across open moorland.

Warrens
Historic Buildings

Warrens

Buckfastleigh

Crumbling stone foundations scattered across open moorland, marking where rabbit warrens once sustained medieval communities.