Dartmoor Forest
A deep pool on the East Dart in the remote northern moor, where the young river narrows through Sandy Hole Pass over a bed of sand and gravel, once deepened to help float cut peat downstream.
Holne
One of the most beautiful wild-swimming pools in the Dart Gorge, a long, deep reach of clear green water between two cascades, lined with granite slabs and little sandy coves.
Chagford
The southern headwater of the River Teign, rising near Sittaford Tor, flowing through Fernworthy Forest and Reservoir before joining the North Teign near Chagford.
Dartmoor Forest
A remote northern moor brook rising below Steeperton Tor and running down through Taw Marsh to join the young River Taw, deep in the Okehampton range.
Dartmoor Forest
A short moorland river on the southern moor that flows down to join the River Swincombe near Foxtor Mires, part of the tangle of headwaters above Hexworthy.
South Tawton
The marshy head of the River Taw below Steeperton Tor: once a lake, the target of three reservoir schemes, and a source of Devon's drinking water from 1959 until the 1990s.
Belstone
The underground water works built in the late 1950s to take radon out of Taw Marsh water: a concrete building with skylights, sold or offered for sale in 2014, 2018 and 2023.
Holne
A small reservoir on the southern moor above Holne, built in 1907 to supply Paignton. It dams Venford Brook on Holne Moor, with an easy path around the water and Venford Falls tumbling below the dam.
Dartmeet, Princetown
A four mile stream from near the Warren House Inn south to the East Dart at Babeny, partly forming the boundary between Teignbridge and West Devon.
Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 200, 1900“It struck me as something new in farming, and I was going to ask him what there was in it that he paid a labourer to hoe his stubbles.”
Also on Our DartmoorPillow mound near Little Mis Tor — A small oval pillow mound 6.5 m by 4 m beside a tin streamwork between Little Mis Tor and Over Tor, in Merrivale Warren, which has at least 27 mounds.
