Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
A hut circle settlement above Cherry Brook with an enclosure and 14 huts, two cairns with cists on its east edge, and a post-medieval house and linhay cutting through the enclosure.
“Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, lend me thy grey mare, / All along, down along, out along, lee. / For I want for to go to Widdecombe Fair, / Wi' Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, / Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawk, / Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all.”
Who wrote this?
The Cholwich Town contour reave: 2.2 km along the 370 m contour from Rook Watershed Reave to beyond the Cross Dyke, marked midway by an enclosure with at least sixteen hut circles.
A grade II* listed building with roots in Dartmoor's parish life, comprising a main house and detached rear structure of likely medieval or early modern origin.
A Grade II* listed church dedicated to Our Lady and St Mary Magdalene, rooted in Dartmoor's medieval religious landscape.
Ashburton
Grade I parish church on West Street, with a 21 m granite-dressed tower built before 1449 and restored by G E Street in 1882-3.
Buckland Monachorum, Yelverton
Grade I parish church, mainly later 15th century, with a hammerbeam nave roof with musician angels and the Drake Chapel's granite vault.
Moretonhampstead, Newton Abbot
Grade I granite parish church with a four-stage tower recorded in 1418, a late 15th-century nave and aisles, and heavy restorations in 1856 and 1904-5.
Whitchurch, Tavistock
Grade I granite church at Whitchurch with a Norman south door, a chancel of about 1300 and a 15th-century tower, nave and north aisle.
A Grade II* listed medieval church dedicated to St Bridget, standing in the Dartmoor landscape.
