RAF Memorial

High on Dartmoor's exposed slopes stands a memorial to those who died serving with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. The site marks a place of loss on the moor itself, a landscape that became both training ground and, tragically, the final resting place for aircrew whose operations or accidents claimed lives in this remote corner of Devon.

Visiting requires effort across open moorland, but the isolation and windswept terrain offer a genuine sense of place. The memorial's position on Dartmoor connects the names inscribed there to the landscape they knew, making it more than a distant monument, it's a marker of real events in a real place that shaped the moor's twentieth-century history.