Hostel

Hostel stands as fragmentary evidence of life on the high moor, its stone foundations and partial walls scattered across the windswept landscape. The ruins occupy a exposed position typical of Dartmoor's upland settlements, where people carved out existence from the granite and heather despite the harsh climate and isolation.

The site invites contemplation of the communities who once sheltered here, their struggles and small victories now readable only in collapsed stonework and the shape of the land itself. Standing among these remains, you sense the weight of the moor's indifference, a landscape that has outlasted human ambition and returned much of it to bracken and weathered stone.