Skir Gut (Tinners' Gully)

Skir Gut is a dramatic ravine cut deep into Dartmoor's high ground, its sides scored and tumbled by the systematic work of tin miners. The gully's name comes from the tinners' practice of 'streaming'—channelling water to wash away topsoil and expose tin-bearing gravels beneath. Walking its length, you can read the moor's industrial past in the displaced stones and the erosion patterns that mark where generations of men laboured.

This is not a manicured heritage site but a raw piece of Dartmoor's story, best visited after rainfall when water runs through the gully as it did in the miners' day. The surrounding moorland is open and windswept, with views across high Dartmoor. It rewards those willing to pick their way over rougher ground to understand how the moor sustained communities for centuries.