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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Wellington crash site, Three Barrows
Other Heritage Sites

Wellington crash site, Three Barrows

Ivybridge

Where Vickers Wellington LN775 flew into the hillside north-east of the central barrow on Three Barrows Hill on 1 March 1944, off course on a delivery flight to Morocco. All four crew died.

Welltown Farmhouse
Historic Buildings

Welltown Farmhouse

Grade II* listed farmhouse on Dartmoor, likely medieval or early modern in origin.

West Burrow Farmhouse
Historic Buildings

West Burrow Farmhouse

A Grade II* listed farmhouse on the edge of Dartmoor, likely dating from the medieval or early post-medieval period.

West Chapple Farmhouse
Historic Buildings

West Chapple Farmhouse

A Grade II* listed farmhouse on the edge of Dartmoor, likely dating from the medieval period and representative of the vernacular architecture that shaped the moor.

Historic Buildings

West Cottages

Lower Merripit, Chagford

Weathered stone cottages slowly surrendering to Dartmoor, their empty windows framing moorland sky.

West Week Farmhouse
Historic Buildings

West Week Farmhouse

Grade II* listed farmhouse on the edge of Dartmoor, likely medieval in origin with later additions.

Westcott Cottage
Historic Buildings

Westcott Cottage

A Grade II* listed cottage on the high moor, built in the vernacular style of rural Dartmoor.

Western White Barrow
Cairns & Barrows

Western White Barrow

A round cairn, 21 m across and 1.7 m high, with an inverted boundary cross and a two-roomed peat-cutters' shelter built into it, on Quickbeam Hill.

Wheal Betsy
Industrial Archaeology

Wheal Betsy

Kingsett, Tavistock

The dramatic stone ruins of a tin mine engine house stand sentinel on the open moor, a monument to Dartmoor's industrial past.