Trowlesworthy Warren Pillow Mounds

Trowlesworthy Warren preserves an unusual landscape feature: a series of low pillow mounds built in medieval times to farm rabbits. These gentle humps, still visible across the moorland, once enclosed warrens where rabbits were kept as a valuable source of meat and fur. The warren sits on Dartmoor's characteristic granite plateau, where such earthworks speak to a time when the moor was more intensively worked and managed than we might imagine today.

Walking among the mounds, you're encountering a practical medieval enterprise, rabbits were luxury resources, and their farming required deliberate landscape modification. The site offers a quiet lesson in how Dartmoor's people adapted the moor to their needs, long before the industrial era transformed other parts of Devon.