Shaugh Woods

Shaugh Woods covers the steep oak-wooded valleys where the River Plym and River Meavy meet at Shaugh Bridge, about 6km north of Plymouth on the south-western edge of Dartmoor. The woods take in the granite outcrop of Dewerstone Rock , and the Iron Age hillfort prehistoric enclosures near Dewerstone Cottage , whose stone ramparts and hut circles crown Dewerstone Hill above the river. Beyond its ecology and archaeology, the woods carry substantial 19th-century industrial remains: a disused iron mine, a quarry tramway and a brick kiln, together with evidence of charcoal burning, all reached along the National Trust's waymarked Plym Valley trail and the shorter Dewerstone Wood walk. In 2024, the entomologist Clive Turner recorded beetle specimens here as one of his three Dartmoor survey sites that year.

• Period: Iron Age
• Grid reference: SX 5369 6394 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)